Good to be posting on this blog again. I used to think it was a good idea to be posting on the sites run by trade publications, but I am not so sure anymore. It all ends up being free content from people like me, for publications who run all sorts of stuff without editorial or scientific oversight.
Anyway....the reason for this post is to announce that I am going to be writing what will be my third book in the field of asset management. This is going to be a self published work, and it will cover a range of fields that I have helped to pioneer over the last decade or so.
Since starting out in the game I have been struck with two fundamental problems. The first of them was "why do reliability initiatives fail?" And this is an issue that I have been working through now for over two decades.
The general (read: consultants) answer to this is generally some fluffy statements about vision, management support, toolkits and tools and so on. My opinion? All great for separating clients and their money...not so great for rapid results that last.
The answers I have arrived at spread across a range of issues from the danger of champions, through to the impractical nature of collecting asset data, through to choosing the right projects to start on, and a whole mess of subjects in between.
The second of these two great issues was around corporate involvement. "How can we place asset management firmly at the center of corporate life?". I had a go with my early book on the Maintenance Scorecard, a book which has now formed the backbone of several large institutions rive for strategy.
But ultimately the questions was a bit larger than that. This book is a story that has crossed three different continents, a range of countries and industry sectors, and with input from some of the better minds in this area on the planet.
It is also going to encapsulate a lot of the processes and thinking that I use today in delivering reliability consulting services.
If you receive our newsletter (you can subscribe in the top right hand corner) then I am going to be publishing each of the chapters in draft form for your feedback.
It took me several decades to work out I am not John Moubray so the book will be written in my blog voice. That is, relaxed, casual, and not trying to be a university professor.
I am a bit worried that there are some unethical types who will steal the ideas and pass it off as their own without any form of recognition...but the world is filled with Pirates and I can't be worrying about them all the time.
I swore to never write another book on asset maintenance unless it was something new, unique and worth writing... there are already a heck of a lot of books and articles out there telling us how to be planners, or why RCM will save you money.
I think that this book will be something new... please stay tuned and let me know what you think of the chapters as they roll out.
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