Getting a project away these days feels like planning a rocket launch.
You know the problem – the Earth is surrounded by a debris field and you have to wait for the next best time to get your rocket through.
Take an energy saving project, for example. When can you do it?
I remember walking around a production line with air leaks everywhere – a simple source of savings.
But the problem was that the money saved was dwarfed by the money lost if production was stopped.
So no projects could be done unless a planned maintenance window came around or if something failed catastrophically.
Planned maintenance is better. And that idea of working to a window make sense for a lot of projects.
The best time to get in a new energy efficient machine is when the current one comes to end of life and it’s time to replace it.
Retrofits are hard to do and people avoid them unless they have to do them.
Figure out when the windows are for you to make a decision – and work backwards from there to get everything else in place for launch.
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