Mike Sondalini — Thought Leader

ISO 55001 Certification Bodies are accrediting Service Providers to the ISO 55001 asset management standard in the misconstrued belief that a Service Provider’s ‘asset’ is the Contract with a Client. This misunderstanding is dire for service business success.

Having lots of paying clients is the cause of a Service Provider’s success. For a Service Provider, THE ASSET IS THE CLIENT. The Contract with a Client is not the asset!

There is a wonderful ISO 55001 certification benefit you get when YOUR CLIENT IS THE ASSET: The Contract between you and your Client can become your ISO 55001 Strategic Asset Management Plan (SAMP). After all, the Contract explains how you will provide your services to help the Client achieve their organizational goals. That’s exactly what a Strategic Asset Management Plan is meant to do.

Here are some truths and hard-won learning for engineers thinking of becoming a Maintenance Consultant, or any other sort of consultant. There are important know-hows covered in this article that you need to understand if you want to build a maintenance consultancy that delivers you consistent cash flow. I could have written a lot more, but there are really only two determinants you must focus on to become a viable consultancy: marketing and innovation. Read about how Lifetime Reliability Solutions Consultants started and what we had to learn to to market ourselves and survive when the business plan turned out to be completely useless.

How You Look After Your Body Is A Tell-Tale Of How You Look After Every Other Physical Asset

The Care and Conditions You Give to Your Body Show the Values and Principles You’ll Use On Your Organization’s Physical Assets

The ancient Egyptian saying, “As above, so below. As within, so without” contains much truth. What you create outside of you comes from inside of you. Which implies if you want to have a particular thing it’s necessary to first create the capability inside of you. To achieve your goal by any other way is due to random luck.

As The Saying Goes, “How You Do Anything Is How You Do Everything.”

Your work quality should bring you great joy every time you do your job. There’s a little secret that will let you love work and draw happiness from every task you do.

Competition against others only gives you satisfaction when they lose, and you beat them. It’s such a sad, poor way to live life. Yet competition against yourself brings you joy every time you use it.

I love making my bed to world-class work quality in the morning. It makes me happy. That’s because the job satisfaction is entirely in my control. Whether you leave your bed looking like a tornado hit it, or you leave it like a 5-star showroom display, is completely up to you and you alone. I leave my bed made up to 5-star world-class work quality every day because it makes me proud. And being proud of my work brings me satisfaction and happiness.

An Accuracy Controlled Enterprise Ace 3T Standard Operating Procedure Protects Against Human Error and Mistakes

With thousands of opportunities to make human errors and mistakes in a job an ACE 3T standard operating procedure is a powerful way to get work done right-first-time. When the situational risk from errors is too high a Plant Wellness Way EAM System-of-Reliability uses ACE 3T SOPs to ensure work tasks and activities are correct and error-free.

We’re all human, and humans make mistakes—lots of them every day. The image below warns that 10 to 30 errors per 100 opportunities is typical for trained people not using a standard operating procedure. Mistakes happen to all of us. The more complicated the job and the more stressful the situation the higher is the human error rate. A PWW EAM System-of-Reliability protects against human error by giving people an ACE 3T standard operating procedure to follow and be 100% successful.

Use Equipment Criticality to Match Planned Maintenance Strategy to the Operational Risks

Planned maintenance has the purpose of rejuvenating equipment before parts start failing. Use maintenance strategy based on continual renewal to reduce operating equipment risk of failure so that you have your plant and equipment in good condition and thus free of age and stress related defects waiting for the chance to fail.

How to use Condition Based Maintenance Strategy for Equipment Failure Prevention

Most equipment failures have no relationship to length of time in-service. Most failures are unpredictable. But if you detect a future failure early, you can plan and do the repair cost effectively before it becomes a breakdown.

With only about 15% to 20% of your equipment failures being age related, and the other 80% to 85% being totally time-random events, how can you improve the uptime of your plant and facility? This article explains how to detect the random failures that make-up the vast majority of maintenance expense and production downtime by using simple, low cost condition monitoring methods.Keywords: equipment condition monitoring, random equipment failure, equipment failure patterns

Maintenance Strategy 202: Develop your equipment maintenance strategy, then develop your equipment maintenance programs

First develop maintenance strategy—what you want to achieve with your equipment maintenance, why it is necessary, and how to do it.

Then turn strategy into the plans to maintain production asset reliability with the equipment maintenance program.

Often maintenance managers and maintenance engineers are asked to develop a maintenance strategy for their plant and equipment. They need to develop a document. In it you explain how you are going to use the least plant and equipment maintenance expenditure and efforts to ensure the necessary production performance from your production plant and equipment.