http://blog.essltd.ie Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:02:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's all the talk this week. The Cats are nearly there in the history making stakes. (For our non Irish readers, Tipperary face Kilkenny - the Cats- in the All Ireland Hurling Final this Sunday going for an amazing Five in a row!!- unfortunately.) It wasn't always like that for Kilkenny. ... http://blog.essltd.ie/?p=97 Can't think of the authors now who wrote " Planned work cost three times less than unplanned work" .  We all know it to be true from practical experience - I'd love to see some science around these numbers too though.  Some of the pitfalls to avoid around planning (and so how ... http://blog.essltd.ie/?p=92 Back from the holidays this morning so the humour is great!! To make things worse the Cork hurlers were hammered by the Cats yesterday. Can't see the "Drive for Five" being unsuccessful. Had to make do with the English Newspapers while on the beach and one of the big debates raging ... http://blog.essltd.ie/?p=85 Well Cork didn't get the fundamentals right in the first of the Munster Senior Hurling Final. Did better in the second half and it was exciting stuff. Can't see either of the two teams troubling the Cats though. I'm reminded of fundamentals because of the amount of times that I see ... http://blog.essltd.ie/?p=80 World Cup in full swing at the moment, the vuvuzelas are deafening and the millionaire players throw themselve to the ground in total agony as soon as they are tackled. Am I the only one who is thinking "get up you dope, you were barely touched?"  (As a Corkman, the ... http://blog.essltd.ie/?p=74 Who was it that said "it's the economy, stupid"? (Was it President Clinton?) In maintenance, it has always been," it's the budget" and as a service provider, we have certainly had some very "challenging" requests (well,demands really) from some in our customer base due to "the budget". Would it be fair to say that ... http://blog.essltd.ie/?p=64 Ledet who is ex Dupont, says that in the " Du Pont benchmark study, the most reliable performance in the world was Total Productive Maintenance. It was also the least expensive to achieve and sustain. " Then he goes on to say that "  The conventional wisdom is that maintenance best practices are ... http://blog.essltd.ie/?p=59 Sometimes known as "mature recollections". A Canadian firm called Western Management Consultants have put together the Ten Pitfalls to Avoid When Selecting a CMMS/EAM In Mistake no. 2 they comment............" Look for a vendor partner whose resources best fit your specific needs, now and over the long run. Some of the supporting services that ... http://blog.essltd.ie/?p=54 It's an old saying and it's a good one. state, “What gets measured gets done, but you need the right measures to get the right things done.” Steven J Thomas says that that this raises an important question: What are the right measures? He says that what should be measured is ... http://blog.essltd.ie/?p=49 Machiavelli was dead on correct wasn't he? - “There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things, because the innovator has for enemies, all of those ... http://blog.essltd.ie/?p=41