About us
T.A. Cook is a global expert in Asset Performance Excellence. We work in the capital-intensive industries to develop and implement programs to increase and sustain our clients’ profitability. Our teams of specialized consultants, engineers and development coaches provide a unique approach to operational challenges. Since 2021, T.A. Cook has been part of Accenture's Industry X business unit and is thus the one-stop provider for seamless asset lifecycle services enabled by digital solutions.
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Asset Performance Excellence
With our long-term experience in Asset Performance Management we
support you in shaping individual strategies to increase reliability
of your operations while ensuring optimal performance at a lower
sustainable cost.
Digital Solutions
T.A. Cook’s experts identify digital opportunities and know that turning them into a success story requires everybody from shop floor to boardroom to understand, support and embrace the change.
Maintenance
Did you know that ~1% of applicable data is used to drive decision making and to manage the business? Having a realistic understanding of operations and commercial realities allows for maintenance strategies to be optimized.
STO Management
90% of STOs don't reach expected goals. We help our clients find the best answers for them by creating standard processes, providing specialist resources and even running whole turnarounds on a risk-share basis. Find out, how you can be among the 10%
4 Mega Trends Impacting the Successful Digitalization of STO Events
More than 80% of industrial STO events fail to meet expectations due to scope creep, unforeseen delays and related circumstances. Applying innovative technology solutions can help address these challenges. In partnership with startus, we identified 4 Mega Trends for the successful digitalization of Shutdowns, Turnarounds and Outages.
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6 KEY ACTIONS TO MITIGATE SUPPLY CHAIN RISKS
Following these six steps will help your plant to focus efforts on the right spares, mitigate supply chain risks, and eliminate avoidable downtime due to mismanaged spare parts
T.A. COOK BECOMES PART OF ACCENTURE
Accenture Acquires T.A. Cook, Strengthening Asset Performance Management Capabilities for Clients in Capital-Intensive Industries
T.A. COOK DEFENDS TITLE AS HIDDEN CHAMPION IN ASSET PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
The international management consultancy T.A. Cook, part of Accenture, has been recognized as a Hidden Champion again and defends the title as the leading consultancy for Asset
A new kind of networking
Twice a year, T.A. Cook invites top managers from the field of maintenance to the Maintenance Benchmarks Focus Group. This exclusive forum offers participants the opportunity to
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Safety and environmental benefits of reliability engineering
Hydrocarbon Processing: When you boil down the mission of reliability to its bare essence, the job is to deliver maximum operational availability for the least amount of money over the life cycle of the asset.
Dig a Little Deeper into Data
Tong Zou and Drew Troyer talk with Hydrocarbon Engineering about utilizing the Weibull analysis to model complex plant equipment with multiple failure modes having different risk profiles as a function of time.
How to use CMMS data for reliability analysis
Plant Services Magazine: A comprehensive analysis of historical data will help set the right goals and priorities.
T.A. Cook becomes part of Accenture
Accenture Acquires T.A. Cook, Strengthening Asset Performance Management Capabilities for Clients in Capital-Intensive Industries
Impact of not integrating capex in shutdowns
Our experts discuss with PTQ about why capital projects must comply more with detailed practices and principles.
Digital Maturity Assessment: Evaluating Your Plant's Digitalization Journey
Digitalization expert Tim White joins Plant Services to explore the renewed industry focus on condition monitoring and digitalization.
Risk mitigation procedure following criticality assessment and FMEA
Industry expert Tong Zou talked with Hydrocarbon Processing about identifying opportunities to minimize asset lifecycle costs during the development of equipment strategies.
Digitalization, Operations Technology, and the Importance of Data Quality
Digitalization expert Tim White tells MRO Magazine why data quality should be taken more seriously during new digital system implementations.
MANAGING MAINTENANCE AS A VALUE CENTER
Maintenance managers must take it upon themselves break out of the cost center mold and start measuring and communicating their value as business partners. The maintenance cost center trap is undercutting your company’s
Achieving STO Targets With Team Alignment
STO events are complex undertakings that organizations may spend between 12 and 36 months to prepare for. The targets for a STO event include cost, duration, safety, and quality.
CUT COSTS WITH RISK BASED INSPECTIONS
Inspection is critical to the reliability of static assets. When utilized correctly with RBI, it can not only reduce the overall risk of a manufacturing plant, but it can at times yield significant cost savings.
Proactive leadership: Crisis-ready organizations need strong foundations
In the recent issue of Plant Services Magazine, Mark Munion discusses how proceduralized operations and a proactive culture can help you navigate through emergencies.
T.A. Cook: Providing a Clear Path for Digital Asset Journey
T.A. Cook has been recognized by the CIOReview as one of the "10 Most Promising Digital Asset Management Solution Providers of 2021".
DMA: A Compass For A Digital Transformation Journey
Learn how a Digital Maturity Assessment from T.A. Cook can help provide important insights.
A Better Rotation Policy
In a recent issue of Hydrocarbon Engineering, Dr. Tong Zou makes a case for adopting an optimized pump rotation schedule for a standby pump system.
STO Innovations for Now and the Future
In the recent issue of Inspectioneering Journal, John Natarelli discusses how the expectations and processes of prepping for and executing an STO have changed in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Effective Preparation for Turnarounds
In the recent revamps issue of PTQ Magazine, Lee Williamson walks through the most effective methods of preparation for a successful turnaround.
Fuel your maintenance work management process with high-quality notifications
For the vast majority of maintenance actions, a notification should travel through a process one way, one time, quickly and efficiently. This is not the reality in many plants.
T.A. Cook Recognized in 50 Best Companies
The Silicon Review, a print community for business & technology professionals, has placed T.A. Cook within the top 50 companies to watch for in 2020.
Applying a capital process in routine maintenance for risk mitigation
How long-term risk-mitigating techniques can be used to bridge the gap between condition monitoring and high-risk, intrusive preventive maintenance tasks.
Planning to Fail? Take Your Maintenance Planning to The Next Level
Plants can nearly double maintenance productivity if the organization commits to building and using better plans to avoid common delays.
A Proactive Lifestyle for your Machines - Focus on FLAB
Focusing on fasteners, lubrication, alignment, and balance (FLAB) enables you to control the most important root causes of mechanical and electrical wear and tear.
Proactive Maintenance Execution Demands Active Supervision
Plants have an extremely valuable yet very sparse resource: maintenance technicians. It’s important to treat them as such, and mange this resource directly.
Managing the crisis effectivley
The coronavirus (COVID-19) has disrupted all sectors of the oil and gas industry, including asset management.
Getting to the Root of the Problem
Bad actor analysis commonly focuses on reducing costs associated with physical asset management, while other sources tend to fly under the radar.
Engineered Asset Management - A Business Imperative
Viewing engineered assets more strategically and managing them to the maximum benefit.
A Closed Loop System for Defect Management
Regrettably, defect avoidance, which is arguably the greatest dividend-generating aspect of the defect-management process, rarely gets much attention.
Dynamic Risk Management: Forward Facing Lessons Learned
How to increase organizational focus during an STO through Dynamic Risk Management.
PM Optimization: Challenge and Transform Your PM Strategy
The majority of organizations have recognized the need for a proactive PM strategy to increase the overall performance of their plants. However, implementing the strategy is only the first step.
T.A. Cook recognzied as a Hidden Champion
The international management consultancy T.A. Cook was named "Hidden Champion in Consulting" in the "Asset Performance Management" category.
Challenging the status quo
How companies can lay the foundation to improve operational excellence
Effective TAs demand real-time situational awareness
TA leadership must ruthlessly prioritize and monitor daily TA execution activities, but also be dynamic enough to adapt to safely and effectively drive productivity.
Create your most effective maintenance strategy with the help of RCM
With pressures of profitability looming over project construction teams, asset intensive facilities are often handed over to owners and operators without a robust maintenance plan.
Manage scope to meet or beat your budget
Without an effective scope definition and challenge methodology, it is unlikly your STO budget will be met.
The role of operations in shutdown and startup best practices
The first 48 hours of any shutdown can make or break its success.
A Structured, Holistic Approach to an Optimal Asset Management Strategy
In this article Matthew Popovacki, Director at T.A. Cook, will outline the necessity of effectively managing assets, common challenges in long and short term planning, along with a step by step plan for executing STO strategies
Help Your First Line Maintenance Supervisor Improve Productivity
By actively addressing certain issues, companies can lay the foundations for their FLS to contribute to sustainable productivity improvement
The face of maintenance - Why humans are here to stay
Predictive technologies are important, but people will never go out of style
The importance of Planned Maintenance Optimization
Why the Planned Maintenance Optimization process must be viewed as an ongoing exercise to drive continuous improvement, reduce reactive work and improve reliability
Risk: an ever present challenge
The management of risk ensures that an organization sets itself up for success
Optimize your Maintenance Dollar
Actively designing how and when maintenance can best be carried out means that every maintenance dollar will be used effectively
Control is good - trust is better
It's time to recognize that business companions with different interests can profit from one another