Why Does Your Asset Management Program Lack Asset Values? (and why it matters!)
Asset management for facilities and infrastructure has fallen into the leadership realm of gearheads and data managers. The result is...
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J.D. Solomon
- Jun 6
Condition Assessments: Ten Important Things Before Going to The Field
Hopefully, you have already determined the purpose of the condition assessment, developed a subsystem-asset approach based on...
The Experts
- Jun 1
Three Things You Need to Know About Criticality Analysis
Three things to remember about criticality analysis are: 1. Criticality analysis is the essential first step in any improvement program...
J.D. Solomon
- Apr 11
Five Ways to More Effectively Facilitate Business Cases
The foundations of systems thinking and facilitation apply to business cases because the analysis requires a group to establish the...
J.D. Solomon
- Feb 21
Using SOAP Will Save Your Criticality Analysis Time and Money
The Solomon-Oldach Asset Prioritization (SOAP) method is an alternate method for conducting criticality analysis for use on industrial...
J.D. Solomon
- Feb 8
Improving System Performance Starts with a Criticality Analysis
Criticality is a measure of the relative importance of something to an organization's mission or objectives. I prefer using critical and...
J.D. Solomon
- Jan 7
Observed in Practice: 5 Reasons for Choosing a New Enterprise Asset Management System
Organizations change their Enterprise Asset Management System (EAMS) or Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) many reasons....
The Experts
- Jan 4
Ask the Experts Revisited: Improving CMMS and PMIS Systems
The observations provided in this session two years ago are applicable today. Many thanks to Kathryn Benson and Wayne Littman for...
J.D. Solomon
- Dec 8, 2021
Better Data Quality is a Significant Outcome of Forecasting Lifecycle Costs
A lifecycle replacement forecast provides a financial forecast of the total investment needed by an organization to keep its facilities...
J.D. Solomon
- Nov 23, 2021
Two Ways to Improve Reliability and Ease Co-Worker Understanding
Fault Avoidance and Fault Tolerance are the two ways to improve reliability. By reliability, I mean the probability that a designed...
J.D. Solomon
- Nov 5, 2021
Eight Tips for Improving Your Risk Matrices
Risk matrices are one way to perform risk-based prioritization. The approach is qualitative, or describes the quality of the risks, and...
J.D. Solomon
- Nov 1, 2021
Seven Tips to Improve Your CMMS
Business support software like work management, asset management, capital program management, and billing management is more in common...
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- Oct 31, 2021
South Carolina Asset Management Workshop
JD Solomon, Inc is a sponsor of the 2021 Asset Management Workshop, a one-day virtual event on November 11 by the South Carolina Water...
Taylor Scott
- Oct 15, 2021
JD Solomon's Controversial Comments On Root Cause Analysis
JD Solomon’s comments at the 2021 North American Asset Management Conference were not what the audience expected. The topic was Root...
J.D. Solomon
- Oct 12, 2021
Fewer Surprises And More Uptime
Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is an essential element in any asset management program because a structured approach provides the best...
The Experts
- Oct 11, 2021
More Than Science: Asset Managers Have Their Role to Play in the Energy Transition
The energy transition away from fossil fuel is a three-legged stool - public policy (legislation), rule-making, and rate-making. Asset...