by T.A. Cook | Jun 11, 2021 | SPONSORED INFORMATION
From Peter Munson, Senior Manager and Global Expertise Lead Maintenance T.A. Cook (tacook.com) Maintenance professionals often see themselves as the unsung heroes of the plant. They toil away out of the limelight, underfunded and unappreciated, to keep things from...
by T.A. Cook | May 22, 2021 | SPONSORED INFORMATION
From Massimiliano Giffuni Reliability and Maintenance Specialist T.A. Cook (tacook.com) In the process industry, static equipment represents the vast majority of mechanical assets at a manufacturing site. Most of these assets were designed for a roughly 20-year...
by T.A. Cook | Apr 22, 2021 | SPONSORED INFORMATION
From Tim White, Senior Manager T.A. Cook (tacook.com) The key benefit of a digital asset management (DAM) strategy is that an organization can move from descriptive and diagnostic analysis to predictive and prescriptive analysis. Rather than making decisions based on...
by T.A. Cook | Mar 26, 2021 | SPONSORED INFORMATION
From Markus Lewerenz Principal & Global Expertise Lead Digital Solutions and Frank Uwe-Hess Co-Chairman T.A. Cook (tacook.com) When we plan a journey, we usually start out knowing two things: where we are and where we want to go. A majority of companies in the...
by T.A. Cook | Feb 20, 2021 | SPONSORED INFORMATION
From Lance Bisinger, CMRP, CRL Principal, Global Expert Lead Reliability T.A. Cook (tacook.com) Dr. Ajith Parlikad leads research activities at the Institute of Manufacturing in Cambridge, UK, and is Head of the Asset Management Group. His particular focus is on...
by T.A. Cook | Jan 4, 2021 | SPONSORED INFORMATION
From T.A. Cook Staff T.A. Cook (tacook.com) The following questions and answers come from an interview conducted with Andreas Weber, Ph.D., Vice President of Commercial Interface & Development, Evonik Operations, GmbH. Among other things, Dr. Weber is also a...
by T.A. Cook | Dec 5, 2020 | SPONSORED INFORMATION
From Joao Reis, Senior Manager and Capital Projects Global Expertise Leader T.A. Cook (tacook.com) We’ve been in difficult situations before, but nothing compared to our current crisis. And this will certainly not be the last time we’ll encounter major disruption...
by T.A. Cook | Oct 22, 2020 | SPONSORED INFORMATION
From Peter Munson, CRE, CSSBB, CMRP Project Manager T.A. Cook (tacook.com) As companies navigate the COVID crisis, they’re feeling their way toward a new and uncertain “normal.” Even as demand begins to recover, most industries will remain in a...
by T.A. Cook | Sep 16, 2020 | SPONSORED INFORMATION
From David Fleming, Senior Manager T.A. Cook (tacook.com) During the period of the pandemic, management in asset-intensive businesses have had to make major decisions with regard to their STO events: Should they be postponed; continue as planned; and/or be split up...
by T.A. Cook | Aug 14, 2020 | SPONSORED INFORMATION
From Elliott Lezov, Senior Consultant T.A. Cook (tacook.com) How much did your company spend on its last improvement project? How long ago did it happen? What was the preceding improvement initiative before the last one? How much of it is still being followed today,...
