Paul McNamara
Winning requires a full team effort, all seats filled with skilled players, everyone pulling in the same direction, and focused on the same outcome: winning. Winning teams are fun to be a part of and can be deeply meaningful to our business and career success. Today’s challenge is what constitutes a win is changing rapidly…
The most asset-intensive and costly part of any manufacturing business is its test equipment operations. Test equipment is an essential and very costly component of the product development process in engineering and the order to cash processes in manufacturing and field support/MRO. These processes are complex and costly, tend to be slow or erratic, and…
TRM (Accelerated Enterprise Asset Management) achieves 2X to 4X improvements to asset utilization, throughput, and speed compared with typical asset management solutions. You can now launch twice as fast getting results in 30 to 60 days! Great projects have great potential and get key constituents on board to drive the change with the knowledge and…
Winners push their limits by analyzing and producing a steady stream of high-value improvement opportunities and then quickly exploiting them to save money and time. Push too hard without these opportunities and the wheels come off as you pass process limits, greatly reduced by Covid-19. Don’t push hard enough and you lose to more capable…
Test Resource Management (TRM) is a resource management approach that includes assets and was pioneered by Sente and focused on complex and costly, asset-intensive environments that support mission-critical enterprise processes. This includes engineering design and development, manufacturing, and service organizations like MRO or calibration.  In environments where costs can be compounded by several factors – utilization, poor…
Speed is the key to competitive advantage and speed is not possible without visibility to obstacles – but it is only an advantage if you can see things your competitors can’t and then know what to do about them. Seeing less known but nonetheless serious obstacles require technology and competence. Without them, you can’t go…
Asset-Intensive operations have their own set of unique challenges when considering how they will be transformed for speed and cost competitiveness post-Covid-19. TRM looks like an answer for CEOs who, emboldened by the initial adoption of collaboration tools necessitated by Covid-19, intend to accelerate the broader changes required to drive speed and efficiency in their…
Unless you plan to produce great results, you don’t have a chance at producing them. They don’t happen by accident. The outcomes you aim at will specify what kinds of tools you will need and how you will need to use those tools. The same tools can be used by two different people or people…
The Covid-19 pandemic has been a huge disruption, but if we are honest it has already shown us how unprepared we are to react to quickly changing events effectively. This capability to adapt is a competitive necessity today with or without the pandemic. To compete in the 4th Industrial Revolution requires resilience and speed and…
In the asset management game, most solutions are focused on technology often at the exclusion of the asset management team and their customers. Just as the musician’s skill has a huge impact on the musical performance, such is also the case with asset management. It doesn’t mean that tools aren’t important, they are, but by…