Is It OK To Be Excited About Maintenance?

by Terrence O'Hanlon, Publisher and CEO Reliabilityweb.com and Uptime Magazine

When John Schultz first co-founded Allied Reliability, he used to say “It’s OK to get excited about maintenance!”

Of course “excitement” already existed in the maintenance community.  When a critical machine fails, you can bet that there will be a great deal of “excitement” around that event.  We think John was referring to a completely different kind of excitement. 

He was excited because evolving condition monitoring technologies coupled with effective strategies for pinpointing their application were creating high-performance reliability results.  Companies no longer had to be surprised by failures.  They could detect potential failures much earlier and plan interventions that would prevent a major disruptive and unplanned failure.

The team that creates each issue of Uptime® Magazine and Reliabilityweb.com also get excited about maintenance.  We are committed to making the world a much more productive, safer and yes; a more exciting place for maintenance leaders who can learn new things that will produce career making returns (ROI) for those who make the difficult journey to high-performance reliability.

This is one of the ideas that drive IMC or the International Maintenance 

Conference.

This event, now in its 27^th year not only delivers stellar educational opportunities; it does so in a positive and exciting format that builds networks, confidence, knowledge and team.

Take a few minutes and check out some of the images of IMC-2011 26^th International Maintenance Conference and decide if you want join us for IMC-2012 being held December 4-7 at the Hyatt Regency Coconut Point in Bonita Springs Florida on the Gulf of Mexico.

We hope we see you there.