Rachel Wagner’s Post

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Hello again. OK, so if you haven't watched Nate Bargatze's SNL comedy skit focused on how paradoxical and unintuitive our systems of weights and measures is here in the United States, it is absolutely worth the watch. Spoiler Alert. Nate draws attention to how confusing it is to know when and why. Sometimes we use the imperial measurement system and other times we use the metric system, and there's really no rhyme or reason to it. It would be in. Possible to correctly guess when to apply certain measurement systems or temperature scales without some help. In all seriousness though, there is both truth to everything he says and a lesson to be learned here about the necessity of a playbook or a set of guidelines, at least to help navigate how to do something properly. You'd of course assume you played American football primarily with your feet, but that is definitely not the case. To know how to play the game you need to 1st. Learn the rules when it comes to managing our assets. You could say the same. How does someone know how best to manage assets over time given the constantly changing dynamics like wear and tear, environmental conditions or operator to operator variation? If you're an asset manager trying to maximize the life cycle of your assets, are you really going to just give it your best guess? Of course not, because you're likely going to guess wrong. The good news is there is a playbook. Where your assets called asset management. I know, shocking, right? It provides A framework for best practices and recommendations on how best to manage your assets so that they stay healthy for the long term. Asset Management does not have tunnel vision or near sightedness, but instead looks at the horizon and aims to help make those maintenance and operational decisions easy. So why would you ever rely on intuition or simply just guessing? When there's a playbook to help untangle any confusion and light the path to high performing assets.