RCM: Battling the hidden agenda

Download this article as a PDF Any reliability-centred maintenance (RCM) practitioner worth their salt will be able to wax lyrical about how vital understanding the operating context is to a successful analysis but… What of the context of the RCM study itself? …...

Video – Automating Tech Data Reporting

← Previous post Next post → Back to Blog home This video is from our ILS Seminar in June 2017: Paul Messer and Lee Fitzsimons talk about automated reporting from technical data sources (in this case, our Maintenance Analysis package; A*) using Epic, an XML...

Why standardise how we do spreadsheet models?

← Previous post Next post → Back to Blog home Is the model right? As Matthew said in a recent blog, “It is often explained that all models are wrong, just some are less wrong than others.” I agree wholeheartedly, and believe that this is necessarily so. The...

System Interactions

← Previous post Next post → Back to Blog home ‘You take a chance getting up in the morning, crossing the street, or sticking your face in a fan.’ Title quote credit: The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! Director: David Zucker. Performer: Leslie...

Reductio ad Absurdum

← Previous post Next post → Back to Blog home “Why do we need to train our Military Maintenance engineers?” This short piece is adapted from a presentation delivered back in 2012, in that presentation I corrupted the “Reductio ad Absurdum” concept somewhat,...