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$50 Oil: Cost Reduction vs Efficiency
It is now widely accepted that the oil industry needs to collaborate, focus and innovate to reduce the $$'s to produce each barrel of oil and become more efficient in its processes, workflows and accelerate the take up of technologies which are successful in other...
Spotfire 7.0 Dashboards in under a Minute March 2015
Thanks to Robin and Will for a great Spotfire 7.0 demo - check it out! This 8 minute demo shows - Spotfire Recommendations - Guided Analytics - The intuitive self-service functionality - Changing layout and look-and-feel [colour / style] through one button action -...
‘Back to the Future’ – available for Spotfire consulting assignments
The transition back to an independent consulting role means that I can now focus on delivering and building guided analytics applications for TIBCO Spotfire Energy customers. TIBCO Spotfire is a great analytics platform and as a TIBCO Spotfire Partner the plan is...
TIBCO Spotfire Analytics for Maximo
TIBCO Spotfire analytic templates connected to IBM Maximo 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, 7.x can very quickly deliver a proven and comprehensive KPI reporting, failure and reliability analysis environment for continuous maintenance improvement. The Maximo template delivers value...
Involving your maintenance consultants
At many installations a significant level of effort is provided by the external resources of maintenance and reliability consultants. In addition to your own knowledge, providing your external consultants with up to date analysis using your maintenance data and build...
‘Bucket’ work orders
'Bucket' work orders for recording hours are a sure indicator/sign of business process failure around the CMMS. These buckets of time fulfil a misplaced management need to account for the billing of maintenance hours, even though there is no evidence as to what work...
Failure Analysis of ‘Near Misses’
The upside of condition-based monitoring and digital control systems is that they are proactive in preventing failure but the downside is they frequently mask the cause of failures. These near misses should be treated as failures and analysed as such. It is important...
CMMS – Building the ‘Big Picture’
The Big Picture - to get the big picture of events over time you need to obtain and analyse a lot of data from a number of different sources, CMMS, condition monitoring, SCADA, DCS, Production reporting. It is always difficult to identify links between these different...
The Concept of NEGATIVE WORK
There is a lot of interesting discussion and theory around staff resistance to maintenance program initiatives regarding buy-in, training and supporting the maintenance program, however I think the simple insight is that the Supervisors and Technicians have seen it...