After looking at the headlines of various blog posts and news articles printed over the last week, I have determined that every positive action (innovation, leadership, business process management, etc.) is now compared to the actions of Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple Computers. I see no problem with this. In my opinion, Steve Jobs was a genius who changed the world of computers, personal electronics, software, and the way people interact with data for the better.
The Apple Macintosh was first released in January 1984 and change the world of computing forever. While previous computers (and other contemporary computers like those running MS-DOS) relied on cumbersome text-based commands, the Apple Macintosh pioneered the use of the mouse. This mouse combined with a graphical user interface (and allowed users to open files and access programs by clicking on icons). Such a change made using computers easier for non-technical people and made it easier for everyone to locate and access data.
As I was recently thinking of Steve Jobs' contributions, some of them are not unlike those related to asset performance management. While Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) systems contain loads of equipment-related data, often it can be difficult and cumbersome to access that data. As a result, it is difficult to improve asset strategies in an EAM system because it takes so long to find the data. Luckily, like the Apple Macintosh, tools like Meridium APM Software can get you down into the data "in just a few clicks." This saves time and facilitates reliability improvements.
Randy King of NOVA Chemicals explains how Meridium APM Software has helped his company find and use data. NOVA Chemicals integrates Meridium into their maintenance processes in order to achieve reliability best practices.
Like Steve Jobs and Apple Computers, APM software revolutionizes traditional asset management, making it more effective and easier to use. For more information on APM Software, click here.
The Apple Macintosh was first released in January 1984 and change the world of computing forever. While previous computers (and other contemporary computers like those running MS-DOS) relied on cumbersome text-based commands, the Apple Macintosh pioneered the use of the mouse. This mouse combined with a graphical user interface (and allowed users to open files and access programs by clicking on icons). Such a change made using computers easier for non-technical people and made it easier for everyone to locate and access data.As I was recently thinking of Steve Jobs' contributions, some of them are not unlike those related to asset performance management. While Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) systems contain loads of equipment-related data, often it can be difficult and cumbersome to access that data. As a result, it is difficult to improve asset strategies in an EAM system because it takes so long to find the data. Luckily, like the Apple Macintosh, tools like Meridium APM Software can get you down into the data "in just a few clicks." This saves time and facilitates reliability improvements.
Randy King of NOVA Chemicals explains how Meridium APM Software has helped his company find and use data. NOVA Chemicals integrates Meridium into their maintenance processes in order to achieve reliability best practices.
Like Steve Jobs and Apple Computers, APM software revolutionizes traditional asset management, making it more effective and easier to use. For more information on APM Software, click here.
What better way to gauge asset performance than from the palm of your hand. Meridium and Rockwell Automation jointly developed a mobile data collection and analysis application. So whether you're beaming down to another M-Class planet or just taking a walk through the plant to take some readings, there are several things you can now do that you weren't able to even just a year ago. Here are six of them:
All "Star Trekking" aside, don't we seem to be pre-wired for this type of data visibility and access? The Gene Roddenbury had a vision for efficiency that was very much a logical foreshadowing of how we've begun to do business today. What used to be sci fi fantasy has very much become a reality over the last several years. Tablet applications for APM software really moves the line between what gets done by humans and what gets done by computers definitely closer to the side of computers. Who's got time to juggle papers and spreadsheets these days? (Especially when you've got a Romulan Bird of Prey on your case!)
Chemistry at its most basic level teaches us what things are made of. From simple water molecules to complex polymers, all matter is comprised of simple atoms. Often the same fundamental elements such as hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen make up the majority of complex organic molecules. Without these fundamentals elements, life itself would cease to exist on the earth. 
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