A free sample from Integration, People & Sustainment, Book 8 of the NJN Consulting Asset Management Series.
You can have a perfect Operating Model, a defensible criticality register, RCM-grade tactics, world-class work management, an active DE program, sophisticated APM, and trained LSS practitioners — and still fail. Why? Because the pillars don't work as one system. Because the people who run them are stretched too thin. Because last year's gains have quietly drifted away.
Book 8 is the closing volume. Integration. People. Sustainment. The work that turns seven technical pillars into one operating reality — and keeps it operating.
A practitioner's guide.
Chapter 1 · Why Integration is the Hardest Part
Plus 9-12 further chapters covering the full pillar — see book pages for the complete table of contents.
In every plant I have worked in, the technical pillars of asset management are easier to fix than the connections between them. A criticality assessment can be done in eight weeks. An FMECA on a Class A asset can be done in two. A new work management process can be designed in a month. A KPI catalogue can be defined in a week.
The integration work has none of those properties. It is rarely time-boxed. It rarely has a single deliverable. It is rarely owned by one role. And yet without it, the technical work does not deliver.
The pattern is consistent across operations: pillars that work in isolation but fail at the seams. Criticality scores that don't drive tactic selection. FMECA findings that never make it into SAP PM. KPI dashboards that don't change anyone's behaviour. The seventh pillar — Lean and Six Sigma — sitting unused while DE projects stall for lack of diagnostic rigour.
The closing volume — how the seven pillars work as one system, and how to keep them working.
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