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KPIs are often linked to personal performance. They are a measure of personal success and a key driver for incentives. But is a 'green' KPI always good?

The asset management planning and decision making process is a key process for successful asset management, but what other processes should we draw from?

Let's explore how to build an asset management organisation, how to build an appropriate workforce structure, and how to lead it to success.

For electronic assets, we can do a few mechanical based tasks to prevent mechanical modes of failure that will cause the device to functionally fail.

How do you keep your maintenance team morale positive, focused and proactive? Here are 5 tips for maintenance leaders on how to improve performance.

We are excited to welcome Troy De Knock to our Perth team. Troy joins us to take part in our 12 week summer vacation program.

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.

Paula Birdsall and her daughters took part in the Ramsay Health Care Triathlon Pink event yesterday, Sunday 8th November 2015.

On Friday 9th October, our Perth team created Christmas hampers and care packs for Mission Australia.

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

The Joint Accreditation System of Australia and New Zealand has recently finalised its requirements for ISO bodies providing audit and certification of asset management systems to ISO 55001 specifications.

During this time Sandy Dunn, Managing Director has sponsored a variety of speaking events, such as 'Making Engineering Diverse' breakfast in Perth.

The paper, titled 'Selling the Value of Asset Management to Senior Management', was voted by the delegates at the AMPEAK conference in Sydney last week.

65 Roses Day was a great success this year in Perth with orders topping 7,500 roses - 2,000 more than last year.

Our Brisbane team worked together with Mission Australia to transform the front garden of Roma House into a more tranquil and homely space.

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.

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

Let's explore a streamlined approach for determining equipment criticality, which achieves the desired results while consuming less of your time.

This month, our Brisbane team helped the community by giving their time to Mission Australia's Youth Beat Service.

The most recent community day was dedicated to Mission Australia's Youth Beat Service where the team put together care packs and Christmas hampers.

In this presentation given at the IMARC conference in 2014, we discuss how to improve equipment and people productivity in the mining industry.

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.

If your maintenance function is already succeeding, there are three key areas in which continuous improvement can further improve maintenance productivity.

Most organisations identify "critical" assets extremely poorly, and the effort that they put into these assessments is mostly wasted. Let’s examine why.