“Walking the Talk” of Asset Management

In capital-intensive industries, effective Asset Management is critical to profitability, ensuring that essential production assets are maintained at the lowest cost while maximizing availability and reliability. Asset Management encompasses three key elements: Work Management, Asset Strategies, and Defect Elimination. These elements, supported by strong leadership and collaboration between Production and Maintenance, form an interdependent framework to enhance reliability and mitigate costly failures. A lapse in any one area can jeopardize the overall success of the Asset Management strategy, leading to safety, quality, and environmental challenges alongside financial losses. This session will delve into assessing the current state of Asset Management, implementing and optimizing its core elements, and fostering a culture that prioritizes Reliability and Availability over superficial adherence to buzzwords. Participants will explore actionable strategies to reduce costs and improve operational outcomes for critical assets, setting a sustainable path forward for their organizations. Speaker: Blake Baca, BDB Solutions LLC owner and Asset Management Coach Blake Baca, is the owner of BDB Solutions LLC and an Asset Management Coach with over 35 years of industry experience in mining, refining, smelting, oil & gas, power generation, foundry, manufacturing, and material processing. Blake started his career at Alcoa and spent 20 years contributing to the success of that organization. Blake is a ‘Red Raider’ having graduated from Texas Tech University with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and also holds a CMRP and a CRL certification. ► Register for an upcoming webinar here:

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“Walking the Talk” of Asset Management is an episode from Fluke Reliability Radio by Fluke Reliability Solutions.

This episode is 51:20 long.

This episode was published on Jan 30, 2025.

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