274 – Dealing with Ramp Up and Degraded Assets with James Reyes-Picknell

Welcome James Reyes who is the author of Uptime and many other books, also a principal consultant at Conscious Asset. More about James:

Having a career that spans for 44 years, James has worked in different organizations and industries some of which include reliability on board both at sea and air. The guest began a reliability consulting career in 1995 focusing on the execution of reliability programs.

In this episode we covered:

What types of Issues are companies going to face?
How do organizations reduce the risks of these challenges?
Do you believe organizations are still hunkered down?

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240 – Manage All Failures or Else with James Reyes-Picknell

Manage All Failures or Else with James Reyes-Picknell

We’re excited to have James Reyes-Picknell, the author of Uptime, Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management, back with us. He’s also written Reliability Centered Maintenance – Re-engineered and Paying Your Way which is his latest book. James also trains and consults in maintenance, reliability and asset management areas across different sectors.

In this episode, we will be discussing:

What is a failure
Why do you need to manage failures
How do you forecast failures not yet experienced
Which strategies are available for managing failure states

…and so much more!

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91 – Uptime: Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management with James Reyes-Picknell Part 2

Uptime: Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management with James Reyes-Picknell Part 2

In every organization who is in the business of maintenance and reliability, the first challenge is always reducing the unnecessary downtime in the machines. There are a lot of strategies that engineers come with to get that level of excellence where they can truly achieve the desired uptime for their assets. For similar guidance such as in this endeavor is provided by James Reyes-Picknell’s book Uptime: Strategies and its latest edition contains a lot of knowledge about how to get your goals about keeping your workforce focused and getting the results that you want from your reliability and maintenance programs.
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90 – Uptime: Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management with James Reyes-Picknell Part 1

Uptime: Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management with James Reyes-Picknell Part 1

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88 – Reliability Improvements with James Reyes-Picknell

Reliability Improvements with James Reyes-Picknell

When it comes to reliability programs, many organizations only focus on the cost reduction of assets and that is a terrible practice. It is not the only goal that reliability program can be deduced to achieve. There are a lot of other activities that can generate a sustainable revenue for you if you perform the necessary maintenance activities for keeping your assets working more efficiently. The real goals of the reliability programs should be to reduce downtime, increase availability, and enhance the performance of those assets that should be working for continuous production.
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47 – RCM Reengineered with James Reyes-Picknell & Jesus Sifonte

RCM Reengineered with James Reyes-Picknell & Jesus Sifonte

In this episode, the guests, James Reyes-Picknell and Jesus Sifonte talk about the RCM Reengineered that they have also explained in their book—to be launched on 20^th April— with a lot of practical approaches as well. The RCM Reengineered is based on the original RCM technique to avoid and manage failures occurring during the asset management process, but it optimizes a lot of factors with a broad range of criticality measures and problems that come along with it. The RCM has been around for a long time and was developed to handle the safety issues in flights but RCM Reengineered focuses on the failures that are science-based and then it provides you with the exact solutions that must be implemented to achieve long-term and sustainable reliability operation depending upon the type of the industry.
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18 – An Asset Management Discussion with James Reyes-Picknell, Part 2

An Asset Management Discussion with James Reyes-Picknell, Part 2

This is second of 2-part episode of the Rooted in Reliability podcast which will give you a detailed insight about where to start with the asset management and then how to take it all the way out. Firstly you really need to understand this concept completely that what’s and what’s not the asset management. The first episode covers the Asset Management and the role of ISO 55000 in it.
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17 – An Asset Management Discussion with James Reyes-Picknell, Part 1

An Asset Management Discussion with James Reyes-Picknell, Part 1

This episode of the weekly podcast covers the Asset Management and the role of ISO 55000 in it. First of all asset management covers the entire life cycle of the equipment or any asset being used by the organization and you need to make sure that nothing goes during this whole process to do it effectively.
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