Maintenance Renaissance Launch Tomorrow in Milan

This week is the perfect week to launch the International Maintenance Renaissance and perfect location.

Learned that a young man of 17 years old died last week because a poorly maintained roof collasped in Turin, Italy. Also viewed a 500 year old fresco paintings that are fading away because of roof leaks that are too expensive to repair. It is literally a crying shame to see masterpieces deteriorate because ineffective preventive maintenace programs. There has to be some inexpensive technology to help preserve our vestages of the past.

Stay tuned for future pictures of the Leonardo Da Vinci Museum of Science and Technology. This was truly a fascinating museum and a great inspirational tool to get more interested in engineering and technology.

Saw in the New York Times that Hezobollah has developed an army of future soldiers in their terrorist quest.

That is when I realized we need to create a Tech army and start young and get them active. We can build on existing programs Robotic contests, Youthbuild and Skills USA competitions. The world needs an army of technicians to battle senseless casualties caused by preventable disasters.

Yes, we have to do more to fix it forward and hopefully after this weeks series of events and the launch of PAS55 more will help repair for tomorrow. We need a new generation of innovations to conquer these challenges.

Hopefully, more will join in and step up to the plate to fix it forward.

Small World Story

Hello again, this is Joel Leonard and I am to depart Amsterdam tomorrow morning to speak at the Leonardo Da Vinci Museum of Science and Technology on Monday and launch the Maintenance Renaissance.

As I was catching up on some work at the business center met Javier Valla, a GM Lead Technician from Fremont, California who is taking his first trip to Europe to recharge his batteries. He was busy searching the web to chart his trip and research the historical locations of old europe.

We got to talking. His mom was the first lady to pass the electricians certification at the GM plant and she was a maintenance woman and Javier is a maintenance technician who is looking to prepare for changes in his career. Although the current economic situation looks bleak, he has a positive attitude and knows that if he continues to elevate his skill sets to handle the new technology and he will have a bright future.

His mom Martha Quesada is now an electrical instructor at the GM plant and Javier can't wait to share with her the song "Find me a Maintenance Woman." http://www.mpactlearning.com/maintenance_crisis_song/FindMeAMaintenanceWoman.wma

Stay as tuned we hope to post this video on SkillTV soon and who knows who else I might bounce into.

Green Movement may be looking to Greensboro

Check out this post by Tom Lassiter of Action Greensboro reporting an idea to advance a mid size town to international prominence by leveraging its name. Hopefully the leaders of the Triad work to take this opportunity to propel this concept to execution. http://springboard.actiongreensboro.org/2008/11/21/claiming-green-leadership/

Royal Mail engineering for success and fighting for respect

Above is Tim Jones, director of engineering for the Royal Mail Service. He has been working feverishly to develop, and implement systems to advance the reliability performance of their machines. Below are some of the slides of his presentation given at the Marcus Evan's Enterprise Asset Management Conference. Very interesting perspectives. Alot more goes into getting the mail that most would ever imagine.

If Jay Leno or Letterman ever got to tour or visit postal services perhaps they would not be as brutal with their jokes.

Joel Leonard

SkillTV.net

Major Breakthrough against corporate apathy and ignorance toward maintenance and reliability performance-

Pass it on-- Pas 55 to be launched Nov 25th

Finally, corporations will be held up to new business standards and perhaps future regulations will be developed to help make common sense common practice and deferred maintenance issues will be worked down. Meaning that top executives will finally be held accountable not just to short term quarterly stock rates but actually leading in the development and execution of long term business sustainable processes. Hooray!!!

Above is a link to the launch to of this new standard called PAS (Publicly Available Specification) 55 . We will be discussing and sharing more details on this in future updates and videos on SkillTV.net.

The movement against the maintenance crisis is making headway! Join us and pass the word about PAS 55. http://www.iam-uk.org/asp/ManualsGuidlines.asp

Introducing the European Maintenance Evangelist

Yes, the Maintenance Crisis is not just a US or a even just a North American problem but actually a global challenge. Wim Vancauwenberghe, on the left above, is leading the fight in Europe by serving as executive director of BEMAS.org , and encouraging maintenance appreciation and professional development. He is working feverishly for companies to benchmark practices, instill pride in their workforce, and most importantly for executives and government leaders to view maintenance not as a cost but a value, profit contributor. Check out his blog: http://www.maintenanceblog.eu/

One of his major contributions was organizing the 2008 EuroMaintenance Conference held in Brussels earlier this year. With over 5500 attendees from 51 countries, this event is the new benchmark for the industry worldwide. http://www.euromaintenance.org/em/vis_presEN.cfm

We need more energetic resources to step up to the plate and work to prevent avoidable disasters and optimize profit performance.

Want to contribute to the fight against the maintenance crisis?

If so contact Joel@SkillTV.net and we will gladly give you whatever support we can provide.

Bleep, bleep, bleep- SkillTV host almost taken out by Bike Riders in Amsterdam

Joel Leonard reports that he has lot to learn while in Amsterdam. He just learned the special markings on the sidewalks dedicated for bike traffic, the hard way.

While taking in the sites of the canals, buildings several hundred years old, modern buildings and watching ducks fish in the canals, a group of bike riders almost mowed Joel down. And he couldn't get out of the way without getting hit by the other lane of traffic that appeared out of nowhere, so he wisely just stayed put and let them move around him.

He said it was kind of wierd to get cussed out in Dutch-- as he had no idea what they said but knew what they meant.

Well, he hopes the collisions he causes at tomorrow's Enterprise Asset Management conference is the crash of new ideas against status quo and outdated business processes. And Leonard hopes not to cause too many international incidents.