Paul McNamara
What is Active Asset Management? It is an approach that actively analyzes, targets, and makes improvements to the speed and competitiveness of asset-intensive enterprise processes in engineering and manufacturing. It is an approach that aligns the action and urgency of every team member with the ultimate objective of their customer: to win the race! The…
Computers have transformed almost everything around us. One of the things they make possible is the acceleration of change, and therefore results, at scale. We accomplish this with Accountability Algorithms build into the DNA of our solutions. Why Are We The Only Software Company that Puts so Much Emphasis on People Probably because we were…
Our Whole System Approach to managing performance in mission-critical, asset-intensive enterprise processes, e.g. test, is why we’ve been able to help our customers drive award-winning results, helping them win enterprise best practice awards. Our results have been uncommon and superior: 25% to 85% increases to speed and responsiveness 40% to 75% reduction in equipment costs…
We Focus on Accelerating Time-to-Market & Reducing Costs With Embedded Knowledge! And we’ve been focused there for over 20 years helping companies manage their performance in mission-critical, asset-intensive processes, e.g. test, enabling them to lower their cost and accelerate time-to-market. We initially focused on test because of the large investment companies make there and over…
We don’t organize merely around managing assets. Assets are easy to manage. They never have a bad day. They are never dissatisfied with their work, ask for more money, have hidden agendas or storm out of the room — although over the years we have heard quite a bit about how assets “walked”. Assets can’t…
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…
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)…
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%…
Our Founder and CEO writes about where to look for help with your transformation effort and some opportunities you might have overlooked. TRANSFORMATION: HUMAN-CENTERED, TECHNOLOGY ENABLED TRANS·FOR·MA·TION (NOUN): A THOROUGH OR DRAMATIC CHANGE IN FORM OR APPEARANCE So many strategic initiatives are overwhelmed by “cultural inertia” and “poor communications” but nobody really knows what those…
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…