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Making the Financial Case for Projects
Nexus GlobalPart 3 of 3 When formally and professionally presenting the proposal, managers need to include an executive summary of the overall spending, adding...
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Reliability - What Fails and What Do We Do About It?
Asset intensive companies have been aiming to increase the reliability of their operations to improve financial performance through effective Asset...
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Removing Bad Habits
Most professionals have the good fortune of working for really fantastic leaders, but also the misfortune of working with a few ineffective leaders....
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Maximizing Maintenance: Assessing Non-Value Added Activities
Part 1 of 2 Have you ever had a discussion with your significant other about non-value-added activities? For instance, why rake leaves when the wind...
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Reassessing Preventive Maintenance Responsibilities Produces Savings
Part 2 of 2 The reallocation of responsibilities, the deletion of non-value-added PMs, the extended PM intervals, the deletion of duplicate PMs, and...
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Costs, Benefits and Projecting Project Payback
I renewed my subscription to Consumer Reports last month. I don’t buy anything of value without referencing Consumer Reports and two or three other...
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Leadership Learned the Hard Way
I have learned a few lessons about leadership over my 30-plus years, starting at the early age of 19. I put on my first tool belt as an electrician’s...
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A Global Problem – The Skilled Labor Deficit
As I travel in the Middle East, I am becoming more acutely aware of a common problem we all share: the lack of skilled labor throughout our...
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Lessons in Leadership: Putting People First
Over the years, I've written numerous columns addressing the major day-to-day challenges facing maintenance and engineering managers, but I've never...