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By Bob Williamson, Contributing Editor
Facilities and equipment management is about to be taken to a whole new level with the release of ISO 55000 Asset Management Standard scheduled for early 2014. Or is it? The long-awaited rollout of this new global standard might not be what many are assuming it will be. Then again, maybe it will. That’s the way it is with the introduction of global standards. Remember the launch of ISO 9000 and ISO 14001?
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By Rick Carter, Executive Editor
In April, Maintenance Technology Reader Panelists offered their views on personal certifications such as CMRP and CLS. Here, they reflect on the value and impact of company certification to standards that address operational management issues, such as those from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and others.
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By Bob Williamson, Contributing Editor
Quality experts of 40, 50 and 60 years ago were told to go elsewhere. The big U.S. industries had quality under control with QA and QC labs, inspectors and defect-sorting processes. So, those experts went to Japan. We all know how that worked out…
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By Mike Poland, CMRP, Director of Asset Management Services, Life Cycle Engineering (LCE)
BSI PAS 55 is a specification, not a standard. Until the new ISO standards exist (between 2012 and 2013), we can refer to several documents that have been developed as management-system standards: All have six common elements (so will this latest addition to the ISO library).
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