Posts by Paul McNamara
Breakthrough Results Require Breakthrough Philosophy
Sente’s founder writes about the philosophical mindset and orientation required to design and execute practices that produce game changing results, competitive in the 4th Industrial Revolution. These are the results that are possible when you break from the habits of the last industrial revolution. Utilization increased by 400% Speed increased 25% Equipment spend decreased 50%…
Read MoreWhy is Test Resource Management Required?
Most test operations we encounter aren’t organized for speed and agility. In fact, practices that are vestiges of the previous industrial revolution lead to costly behaviors like hoarding, which in turn leads to increased costs and constant delays and labs that look more like they’ve been organized for a reality TV show rather than for…
Read MoreWhat is Test Resource Management?
Our Founder and CEO writes about Test Resource Management: a new class of solution, aimed at the unique needs of test organizations in engineering, manufacturing, and quality. Test Resource Management, Working Together Better Test Resource Management is a new category of solution focused on helping organizations significantly invested in test (knowledge, people, processes and equipment)…
Read MoreFix Compliance Issues FAST!
With our Accountability Consoles, sources of non-compliance become easier to identify and fix, enabling your teams to work together, better, to satisfy auditors. Fortune 50 Defense and Space company cements big gains in audit compliance What Were the Results? In a 60 day project we: Doubled data accuracy rates to 98% Eliminated all past-due calibrations…
Read MoreHelp with Reducing Your Costs, FAST!
See what we produced using Scireo’s Accountability Practices and Governance Support Processes. Fortune 100 aerospace firm increases sharing and collaboration across 40+ different sites, driving $ MILLIONS to the bottom line. What Did We Do? Reduced operating capital requirements by millions of dollars Produced 4X the next-best performing continuous improvement project How Did We Do…
Read MoreMake Change Fun
We’ve turned change management into a science. Integrated into our Scireo software’s DNA, it consistently enables breakthrough results and helps teams Work Together, Better though “gamification” of results. 2X Improvements to Speed and Responsiveness 4X Increases to Utilization 40% Reduction in Obsolescence According to a recent Gartner study, the biggest barrier to digital transformation is…
Read MoreWhat Could You Do with More Time?
We make it possible to identify and overcome cultural/behavioral barriers getting in the way of your test team’s speed and effectiveness. Fortune 100 defense contractor eliminates barriers to speed and wins internal team award What Did We Do? Improved project velocity by 25% Increased staff efficiency in key processes up to 90% How Did We…
Read MoreAccelerate Enterprise Processes with Trustworthy Networks-of-Test-Capabilities
We’ve Been Building Resilient and Trustworthy Test Networks for Over 20 Years. Operations supported by test equipment are one of the most costly asset-intensive environments in large manufacturing companies. The practices and tools we use to build our customers’ asset networks are proven by results: reducing equipment spend over 50% while decrease critical process cycle…
Read MoreAre You Building a Foundation for Speed?
Every solution you install in your company should enable you to increase your speed and reduce cost, and minimally should “do no harm” in either area. Most solutions today fail this test and inadvertently reinforce old behaviors that add costs and delays because they aren’t designed to produce a foundation of trust. Our solutions are…
Read MoreEquipment Utilization: What’s your number?
Measuring equipment utilization is the best way I know to determine if your assets are being hoarded and, as a result, if your business is incurring all of the costs associated with it. Hoarding creates the need to acquire equipment that’s not really needed and all of the support costs as well. It also causes…
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