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February 15, 2023
The Future of Predictive Asset Analytics
Predicive analytics is one piece of a larger asset management puzzle. Understand its limitations and benefits to delivering value.
April 21, 2022
What's holding Asset Management back: The hidden problem.
Asset knowledge capture and Knowledge First Architectures (KFA); the hidden key to improvement in Asset Management.
August 6, 2021
Open letter to water utilities
Invitation for water utilities to collaborate on building an open knowledge base for the water industry.
January 6, 2021
Improving the Common Network Asset Indices Methodology (CNAIM)
How to improve the Common Network Asset Indices Methodology (CNAIM) by changing the underlying framework.
October 1, 2019
RCA tip of the week
Using control system trends for RCA timelines
November 30, 2019
Conditions scores are not for decision making
Using only condition scores to make replacement decisions is a trap
December 1, 2019
ML in reliability and asset modelling
Machine learning should not be treated as a black box, and the results should not be just "accepted".
July 29, 2019
Work in the detail. Report simply.
Condition or health scores, MTBF/MTTR, and risk scores should not be used as inputs to further analysis