JD Solomon, Inc has supported Kansas City Water's Smart Sewer program with Burns & McDonnell over the past three years. Our services...

The 31st Annual SMRP Conference joins maintenance, reliability, and physical asset management professionals from around the world on...

Root cause analysis (RCA) is a collective term that describes a wide range of approaches, tools, and techniques used to uncover the...

Are you drowning in the many activities related to what to do in your asset management program? Are you spending valuable resources and...

Surprise, Surprise. This year’s national SMRP conference was in my hometown, Raleigh. In my profession, we do not get many national...

The session is titled "How Baseball Teaches Us Everything We Need to Know About Human Error" and is scheduled for Wednesday, October 19,...

Facilitation is an essential skill for technical professionals working in group environments. Maintenance and reliability education does...

An incredible number of technical professionals believe that effective asset management can only be performed with a meaningful...

Three things to remember about criticality analysis are: 1. Criticality analysis is the essential first step in any improvement program...

This article discusses five ways to effectively facilitate block diagrams by conducting pre-session exchanges, asking powerful questions,...

This article discusses five ways to effectively facilitate tree diagrams by conducting pre-session exchanges, asking powerful questions,...

Think about the greatest risk you have encountered in the past five years. Maybe it was related to physical injury or serious sickness....

There is a lot to unpack in the standard definition of facilitation. "A facilitated session is a highly structured meeting in which the...

Dion Trost returns from Houston to South Carolina. He supports our reliability & maintenance areas of practice, including leading and...

There is no substitute for having the right tool for the job.

JD Solomon will provide his 8-hour workshop at the 68th International Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS) in Tuscon,...

JD Solomon’s comments at the 2021 North American Asset Management Conference were not what the audience expected. The topic was Root...

Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is an essential element in any asset management program because a structured approach provides the best...

The energy transition away from fossil fuel is a three-legged stool - public policy (legislation), rule-making, and rate-making. Asset...