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James Reyes-Picknell — Active Contributor

Author of Conscious Asset articles and multiple books.


This author's archive lists contributions of articles and episodes.

About James Reyes-Picknell

James is the best-selling author of “Uptime – Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management”, now in its 3rd edition, co-author of “Reliability Centered Maintenance – Re-engineered”, co-founder and Principal Consultant of Conscious Asset.

He is a Mechanical Engineer, graduate of the University of Toronto and has more than 44 years working in Operations, Maintenance, Reliability and Asset Management.

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Solving the Skilled Trades Shortage

Solving the Skilled Trades Shortage

Your skilled maintenance trades are a valuable resource that is often squandered by poor management and a lack of proactive approach to the maintenance of industrial assets. 

This article by RBC’s Thought Leadership group on Human Capital describes a problem that many of our industrial customers are dealing with. 

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Do you have a PHB (Pointy haired boss)?

Do you have a PHB (Pointy haired boss)?

Do you have a PHB, “Pointy haired boss”? If you’ve seen any Dilbert comics, then you know who I mean. Dilbert is an engineer too. The PHB is oblivious to the reality around him, only interested in how things look, and impossible to get to with Dilbert’s good ideas.

The comic is popular, especially among engineers, for a good reason. Scott Adams (Dilbert’s creator) knew that the technical world is full of frustration because of the relationship that engineers have with their own PHBs. Technicians, supervisors, superintendents, and managers in maintenance and reliability almost always have technical backgrounds. I’d hazard to say that we’ve all had PHBs at some point.

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One Place for all of your Data!

One Place for all of your Data!

Here’s a video of a discussion event that was organized by UpKeep. Asset Operations Management (AOM) unites maintenance, operations, and reliability data to help teams make important business decisions, with full visibility across the entire life cycle of maintenance, asset management, and operations.

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Launch of “Asset Operations”

Launch of “Asset Operations”

Ryan Chan of UpKeep authored a new book in which he presents some very smart concepts around information management. Here’s a video of a group discussion of those concepts and the launch. Participants include Ryan Chan (author of “Asset Operations”), Sanya Mathura, Ramesh Gulati, Vinny Cavello, and our own, James Reyes-Picknell.

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Unfit for Purpose – revised

Unfit for Purpose – revised

I approach problems with computer systems in a fairly critical way, but I am not anti-CMMS/EAM technology. I am, however, anti-waste. All too often I see a lot of time, effort, and money going into technology that simply doesn’t provide a return on the investment. When it comes to Maintenance data – it is often problematic and unfit for many of its intended purposes. Aside from helping to administer work orders, these systems often provide little business value. Does a small saving in administrative cost and time really justify the millions often spent on these systems?

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Training F2F vs Online

Training F2F vs Online

Recently, we ran a two-week-long survey about training. It asked two questions and here are the results:

For training of your workforce, which do you prefer?

Nearly 3000 viewed the question and 70 answered:

  • Face-to-face classroom 74%
  • Live virtual classroom 10%
  • Self-paced online 16%
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Parts, Stores, and Process Discipline

Parts, Stores, and Process Discipline

Jim and Richard explore the world of parts, what it takes to keep a proper storeroom, and why forecasting demand is crucial for it.

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How to Build Data & Influence People

How to Build Data & Influence People

The gang talks about how to start building proper data, and the trials and tribulations in convincing other departments of your causes.

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Post Covid Perfect Storm

Post Covid Perfect Storm

Richard Beer and James Reyes-Picknell – long-time friends and colleagues like to talk about issues of interest to the asset maintenance management community. Between the two of them, there is nearly a century of experience in the field. Both have seen and lived the mistakes and lessons learned that we call experience.

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Digital Transformations – can they succeed?

Digital Transformations – can they succeed?

Hot on the heels of my two articles (part 1 and part 2) about Data being unfit for purpose is another article by my colleague, Paul Daoust, just published in Canadian Business Quarterly.

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Unfit for Purpose – Part 2 – What Needs to be Fixed

Unfit for Purpose – Part 2 – What Needs to be Fixed

Can’t you make better decisions informed by good evidence? If not, it may be that your data isn’t fit for its intended purpose.

In the first part of this blog mini-series, I point out that the data in Maintenance Management Systems are very often “unfit for purpose” and I list several reasons for “why”.

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Unfit for Purpose

Unfit for Purpose

The data in Maintenance Management Systems are very often “unfit for purpose”. When asked about why there is an Enterprise Asset Management or Computerized Maintenance Management system, the answer varies. Here are some reasons we’ve heard:

  1. It helps with the planning and scheduling of maintenance work.
  2. It helps us capture maintenance costs against the right cost centers.
  3. It helps us find the parts we need for maintenance jobs.
  4. It provides data for reliability improvements.
  5. We couldn’t possibly manage all the jobs without a system.
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Resilience as We Return to a “New Normal”

Resilience as We Return to a “New Normal”

Resilience has been lost – and it’s our fault. We need to get it back.

As the Covid pandemic transitions to endemic (I am optimistic) we will get back to a “new normal”. No one really knows what the “new normal” will be like (yet), but it’s safe to say that it won’t be the same as the “old normal”.

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Communicate Performance Measures Effectively

Communicate Performance Measures Effectively
Do those that manage the performance, understand the measures?

This article is authored by Leonard G Middleton

As noted in other articles, performance measures are used to drive behaviors to make positive organizational changes in support of the organizational strategy and goals.  However how well the performance measures may be developed and defined, if they are not effectively communicated to those individuals whose behavior is important to achieve the strategy and goals, then the performance measures have little value.

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Insurance: Are you Really Covered?

Insurance: Are you Really Covered?

Another conspiracy theory debunked. Your business has various insurance coverages including business continuity. You pay quite a hefty premium for that coverage so you believe you are covered. But are you really?

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