by Frank-Uwe Hess, Co-Chairman | Mar 24, 2020 | Blog, Maintenance
How to Develop a Successful Asset Management Strategy During the Coronavirus Downturn COVID-19 is disrupting all sectors including asset management - plants around the world are operating in emergency mode or are shut down completely. There is no hint about how long...
by Frank-Uwe Hess, Co-Chairman | Jul 3, 2018 | Blog, Maintenance
Look the other way and hope for the best? Not a good idea when managing large shutdown projects where there is always a risk of something going wrong. Huge budgets and potential profit are on the line. Only professional risk management can help identify, avoid and –...
by Frank-Uwe Hess, Co-Chairman | Mar 5, 2018 | Blog, Maintenance
A new kind of networking Twice a year, T.A. Cook invites top managers from the field of maintenance to theMaintenance Benchmarks Focus Group. This exclusive forum offers participants the opportunity to exchange experience and ideas on current organizational concepts,...
by Frank-Uwe Hess, Co-Chairman | Feb 7, 2018 | Blog, Maintenance
Beyond Contractor Management Increasingly, industrial organizations and plant operators are outsourcing their maintenance work to technical contractors in order to focus on their core businesses. For thousands of years, nature has shown how partners with different...
by Frank-Uwe Hess, Co-Chairman | Feb 2, 2018 | Blog, Maintenance
Control is good, trust is better In asset intensive industries, over recent decades, modes of working together have been established incrementally - via alliances, framework agreements, cooperations - and yet working together is rarely based on partnerships. It's time...