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Global ILS Symposium
Aspire help bring together a global event for the integrated support community! In June, Aspire was very proud to help put together an event for the global integrated support community. With events held across 2 days, in 3 time zones, this celebration was put together...
Four lessons for a good ILS implementation on a rail project
The rail industry has a particular focus on customer service due to the massive and complex system that applies to it. These complex systems give an advantage to the manufacturer to propose a service to support their system. At a time when most governments around the world prioritize a friendly ecological transport system and invest more in rail projects, The service business of the rail industry has a promising future, particularly in the EU where public rail monopolies will give way to open competition.
To excel in service delivery, it’s essential to first establish a robust support system that enables efficient management of your assets.
Moving Away from the Omniscience of Project Managers – the Road of the Business Analyst and Their Toolkit, Less Travelled…
I've generally found business analysts (BAs) swimming in pools created by larger companies - those with reach over a few continents and with complicated systems. These companies have the benefit of people dedicated to understanding their business and constantly...
“So what is it you do for work?” Calling myself ‘quite nosy about what you do, actually’ opens more doors than answering business analysis…
I started in IT in 1999 when the world was going to melt down because of Millennium or Y2K bug. For anyone young enough to not know, computing had only ever represented years with two digits, the year 2000 presented a challenge. IT was a busy place to be, there were...
RCM cuts like a razor (Go with me)…
Download this article as a PDF Recently, I grew a beard. In truth, I go through cycles of it (the duration of those cycles tends to be governed by my wife’s patience) and the term ‘beard’ may be a little optimistic. But I grow enough facial hair to change the...
RCM: Battling the hidden agenda
Download this article as a PDF Any reliability-centred maintenance (RCM) practitioner worth their salt will be able to wax lyrical about how vital understanding the operating context is to a successful analysis but… What of the context of the RCM study itself? ... The...
Why does it seem so difficult to get support right?
Warning: This video contains some poetry! That poem is based on a parable and in that parable a passing wise man comes to help the blind stitch...
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Video – Automating Tech Data Reporting
This video is from our ILS Seminar in June 2017: Paul Messer and Lee Fitzsimons talk about automated reporting from technical data sources (in this case, our Maintenance Analysis package; A*) using Epic, an XML based data manipulation tool.
Why standardise how we do spreadsheet models?
The modeller’s task is to represent reality with sufficient fidelity to ensure that decisions based on the model are sound. So how can we make sure that the spreadsheet is fit for purpose?