Test Resource Management Blog
Our Test Resource Management blog focuses on philosophy as well as the tactical and strategic knowledge of how TRM is used to accelerate time-to-market and reduce costs... significantly. We think it's important that you know how we think, because it is always thinking that leads to action, and powerful thinking leads to powerful action.
We hope the content of our Blog is helpful to individuals and teams looking to compete in today's challenging environment. We have been recognized by various customers and industry analysts for our results. We share a bit about "how" in this blog.
Read to learn more about our approach to driving speed, competitiveness, and capability improvements for our customers. We've always aimed for big results, so here you can read about the thinking and actions behind step change improvements to speed, cost, and capabilities we help produce.
Is Your Team Ready for Its Moneyball Moment?
New competitive requirements for speed and efficiency are driving companies to rethink the way they operate to avoid existential threats. In a moment of similar significance, the Oakland A’s baseball team needed a new, more competitive, and transformative strategy. The strategy they invented, dubbed “Moneyball”, succeeded wildly in outperforming traditional management approaches producing results 500%…
Accelerate Time-to-Market with a “Chief” Mindset
People operating with a “chief” mindset are capable of seeing the world differently and more powerfully. They can escape the cultural biases that get people stuck in habitual ways of thinking. They act from first principles, not their gut. They act intentionally to produce outcomes that others can’t. Elon Musk claims that those operating in…
That One Bad Habit That Costs You Millions
Chances are if you’ve worked around product test for a while, you already know the one bad habit that sets test teams back the most. Hoarding! Hoarding of equipment, labor, support services, and knowledge. Equipment hoarding leads to: Ultra-low utilization of equipment, 10% to 20% instead of 60% plus Wasted Acquisition budgets, 25% to 50%…
Cut Calibration Costs, Improve Quality with Asset Management Algorithms
We have spent the better part of the last 25 years continually perfecting state-of-the-art asset management software tools and practices. We’ve focused on the unique test equipment environment. We help companies increase asset utilization, reduce calibration expense and improve compliance. Asset management is where we spend all of our time thinking, inventing, and investing. It…
Reduce Time-to-Market by Anticipating Constraints
The Theory of Constraints (TOC) was widely popularized in Eli Goldratt’s best-selling book, “The Goal.” In our work in test, we’ve leveraged these principles to produce award-winning Enterprise Asset Management capabilities and results. Our customer talks about the results they got from anticipating constraints and having strategies to overcome them in Digital Transformation: Asset Management…
Increase Equipment Utilization, Dramatically Increase Speed
Increase Equipment Utilization: Test Operations are High-Leverage Targets Test’s ubiquitous presence in mission-critical engineering, manufacturing, and MRO processes makes it uniquely high-leverage as a focus for cost containment and process acceleration. It was hands down why one customer-selected test equipment operations as the place to focus. Focus in this area is why another customer delivered…
Software Accelerates Transformation When Designed With That Intent
Why Trust What we Say? The results we help our customers produce with our software and practices are unmatched. You can hear one of our customers talk about it in a video linked to this blog post. In a marketplace understandably cynical about the claims of software vendors, the truth is in outcomes, and we’ve…
Drive Test Equipment Utilization to Enable Investments
Driving test equipment utilization is critical to meeting today’s competitive challenges. Freeing up capacity for innovation and growth has never been more important. Companies are being asked to bring products to market in half the time and reduce their cost of operations up to 50% to succeed against aggressive global competitors. In hi-tech manufacturing businesses,…
Accelerate Time-to-Market, Don’t Constrain It
Companies must accelerate time-to-market. Most executives wonder how hard they can push their teams before the wheels come off. When they do push they find weaknesses in their support departments. Support departments often slow processes down by the death of a thousand cuts. The cuts aren’t always visible but they always cost – time, energy,…
Old Thinking Constrains Speed by Limiting Exploitation of Tools
“All wealth is the product of knowledge. Matter is conserved; progress consists of learning how to use it.” George Gilder – Economist, Investor, Author. Performance gaps are always knowledge and “capital structure” gaps. With new competitive requirements for better-than-incremental increases in speed, knowledge is the key. Human Capital, the first and most important capital…