Our area is always awash in change. Every week there are talks about new technologies, methods and studies. In the last couple of weeks I have been noticing a trend that I find particularly exciting.
Three of my contacts, two of whom I trained in the past, have recently been promoted to the positions of Global / Corporate RCM Managers. Both work for significant organizations.
On checking this further I found no less than 130 professionals within my network who are now working in roles called RCM Manager. This is in industries ranging from Healthcare to Steel manufacture, through to Oil and Gas and out to the mining industry.
This is a fantastic development. One that recognizes the true strategic importance of equipment strategy creation as a foundation and centerpiece of all reliability initiatives.
It also shows that the message is filtering out quite rapidly now. In the past 10 - 15 years there have been scores of methods and approaches that have sought to dumb down the field of physical asset management.
Reduce it to its lowest common denominator, preaching to that core of managers who just don't "get it".
And they had a lot of converts. In fact, in some markets they were able to convince a frightening amount of people.
Fortunately the tide is turning on this sort of dumbing down of the discipline. And while there will always be a core of people defending dumbed down reliability, the number of people who now understand the message is growing everyday.
This can only be a good thing.
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