Lucas Cespedes

As Director, Lucas’ primary duties include leading the tendering process for consulting work, coaching other consultants, performing quality assurance, and managing ongoing consulting assignments. Lucas is the lead trainer for courses in WA, and is highly experienced in facilitating these courses to the public (face-to-face and online), and in-house to clients as required.

Areas of specialist expertise

• Optimising preventive maintenance programs (RCM and PMO)
• Analysing root causes and eliminating defects
• Failure modes, effects and criticality analysis (FMECA)
• Asset criticality assessments (ACA)
• Improving maintenance planning and scheduling
• Establishing operational and maintenance readiness
• Selecting and implementing CMMS/ERP systems
• Assessing maintenance maturity
• Assessing asset management maturity
• Developing asset management strategies and Strategic Asset Management Plans
• Training needs analysis, development and delivery
• RCM, PMO, root cause analysis, defect elimination, asset criticality assessment & work management RACI workshops facilitation

Industry specialisations

• Mining and mineral processing
• Facilities management
• Agro-industrial

Key successes

• Developed a maintenance management framework and implemented a maintenance management system to standardise, manage and improve the maintenance activities for one of the biggest cardboard producers in South America, with operations in 5 countries, and one of the highest-tier agro-industrial holdings in South America.
• Led maintenance and reliability improvement project for a power generation company, where work management and maintenance strategies development processes were developed and implemented, resulting in large improvements to equipment uptime.

Professional experience

• Assetivity (2023 – current)

  Director

• Assetivity (2018 – 2022)

  Principal Consultant

• Assetivity (2017 -2018)

  Senior Consultant

• Wave International (2012 – 2016)

  Senior Asset Management Consultant

• CMC Technologies (2009 – 2012)

  Senior Sales & Purchasing Engineer

• Soporte & Cia SAS (2006 – 2008)

  Maintenance & CMMS Consultant

• SSI Medical Technologies (2005 – 2006)

  Operations Manager

• Fabricato – Tejicondor S.A. (2005)

  Maintenance Consultant

• Microplast S.A. (2003 – 2004)

  Graduate Maintenance Engineer