Bringing the lost art of systems engineering & integration back to well control equipment
Future Engineers
We recently spoke to a group of high school students about the engineering profession
read moreAd Hoc Product Development
Over the years we’ve had to learn the hard way that even though they have their own distinct life cycles, the relationship between the project and product development are symbiotic: each lifecycle lives or dies based on the success or failure of the other’s lifecycle.
read moreProject Reliability
Your role as a project manager will improve dramatically when you start to think like a systems engineer. Your organization will improve too.
read moreProject Delivery Dates and Product Performance
Many manufacturers have consigned themselves to seek out high as-sold profit margins not for the sake of high profits, but to get their customers to cover all of the unpredictable costs and performance issues later in the project.
read more$70 Oil and Throttling “Back Down to Zero”
Only those businesses that figure out how to deliver their projects on time and profitably—in a manner that’s predictable and repeatable—will maintain their competitive advantage, regardless of market conditions.
read moreProject Shortcuts and Due Diligence
So where would you rather spend your money? Up front doing due diligence where the costs to do the planning are bounded? Or would your rather spend your money at the back end, where things are way out of control and the expected finish date and total costs are anybody’s guess?
read moreThe 1%
“Some people watch things happen, some people make things happen and other people wonder what happened. Which one are YOU!”
read moreProject Risk – It’s There Whether You Know It or Not
One of the main reasons Oil & Gas manufacturing projects fail is because risks are rarely identified ahead of time.
read moreMake Better Business Decisions with Fractions
Thinking about both cost and revenue will make you a better steward of your company’s money, and therefore more valuable to your employer.
read moreMind Those Gaps
On any project, it’s the project manager’s responsibility to “mind the gaps”. Leaving the project gaps untended will lead to failure—most of us who have been around Oil & Gas manufacturing projects long enough have the torn, bloody t-shirts to remind us.
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