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Let's explore how to establish an integrated planning approach that will generate cohesive planning documents, based on what we’ve seen work (and fail) in practice.

How are big data, the internet of things, predictive technologies and predictive analytics impacting on preventive and predictive maintenance activities?

In this article we discuss how to create a good asset management plan that will work for your organisation.

Let's take a detailed look at what a good Strategic Asset Management Plan document may look like for your organisation.

Let's discuss the types of things that an asset management policy should contain, how long it should be, and how to develop one for your organisation.

The ISO released its first series of standards on asset management in 2014. What is commonly referred to as "ISO 55000" is really a suite of three documents.

Let's discuss how to start the journey towards implementing an ISO 55001 compliant asset management system, and what you need to consider before you start.

Asset management is based on 4 fundamentals that were agreed during the development of ISO 55000. This short video will help you understand these fundamentals.

ISO 55001 contains a lot of words, and no pictures or graphics. This video visually explains the key elements of ISO 55001 and how they fit together.

Let's think more broadly about factors that influence maintenance productivity, including the other departments that interact with maintenance.

Changing organisational culture is difficult and takes considerable time. Let's discuss the methods of leadership and performance measures that can help.

Let's discuss the essential elements for a successful performance measurement system, and how to motivate your organisation towards higher performance.

Using the latest research and practical experience, let's outline the ways maintenance managers can reduce or eliminate the impact of human error.

If you’ve made the commitment to implement an asset management system, then your organisation is going to need a leader who can execute it.

Anybody and everybody can have a work management framework within their organisation, but what needs to be considered to make this framework good?

Let's explore a range of alternative approaches for organisations and individuals to use when developing and optimising preventive maintenance programs.

Here are four core concepts which apply to the development of effective preventive maintenance programs, no matter what approach you use.

Many asset intensive companies do not understand that the principles of measuring productivity can be applied internally to their maintenance programs.

Most of the billions of dollars that asset-intensive industries pour into training each year is simply wasted. Here are 5 ways to avoid common failures.

Want to certify your asset management systems as being compliant with ISO 55000? Here are 4 key things you need to know about the certification process.

Let's discuss the process for certification of asset management systems against the ISO 55000 suite of standards.

All organisations interested in best practice asset management should align with the requirements of ISO 55000, whether they seek formal certification or not.

Let's look at arguably the most important document in any asset management system - the plan that captures the actions to be taken on each asset.

Let's review the issues associated with template maintenance plans, to ensure that you achieve lower cost, higher reliability, and higher availability.

Lean maintenance is an approach to help identify and eliminate waste, and deliver bottom line improvements if implemented and managed in the right way.

Maintenance is inherently risky. In fact, you could argue that the only activity that is riskier than doing maintenance is NOT doing maintenance.

Let's look at what asset management means in practice, and how asset management delivers value to an organisation.

Asset management in its broadest sense is not even a specific discipline. It is a new and fundamentally different way of thinking about physical assets.

A well-designed and implemented asset condition monitoring program will enable you to more accurately allocate capital based on reliable asset knowledge.

Here's an overview of the current state of condition monitoring, an overview of what a condition monitoring system looks like, and its main components.

These tips will help you to make the most of your consultant’s time, to achieve the desired assignment outcomes. After all, time is money.