The Roth IAMS blog, Ramblings of an Asset Management Fanatic, is written by President & CEO of Roth IAMS, Bill Roth. In this space you will find the latest topics, trends and issues as they relate to the built environment from Bill’s point of view.
Dec. 05, 2024
Continuing the series this week on issues that organizations should consider as they look to begin a journey to gather an inventory of their major mechanical, electrical and other equipment. The genesis of this series came from the increased discussion around Equipment Inventory & Tagging (EI&T) that I had during many of the Fall conferences […]
Nov. 28, 2024
Anyone else have a tune running through your head right now…….Oh oh oh, oh oh...
Nov. 21, 2024
In my last post I talked about how you can leverage your maintenance information to...
Nov. 14, 2024
This current series of posts that I am writing are all associated with the shift...
Nov. 07, 2024
Having attended numerous conferences this Fall I have been struck by one key change in...
Oct. 31, 2024
State-Level Last week I shared some of the Higher Education and K-12 industry facility-related associations...
Oct. 23, 2024
Last week I wrote about the benefits of joining an industry association. I thought I...
Oct. 17, 2024
As I write this I am in the middle of Fall conference season. I am...
Oct. 10, 2024
As I have talked about many times, one of the biggest challenges for institutions when...
Oct. 03, 2024
Last week I told Part 1 of USask's facility and infrastructure Asset Management story. This week we...
Sep. 26, 2024
Last week I had the pleasure of co-presenting with Jennifer Meneses of the University of...
Sep. 19, 2024
I am not sure how it got to be mid-September already. Living in Florida my...
Aug. 08, 2024
The topic of habits has been very lucrative in the personal and professional development space. The...
Aug. 01, 2024
Depending on where you live, you are either nearing the end of summer and getting...
Jul. 25, 2024
Well here we are a month into our series on maximizing the value of your...
Jul. 18, 2024
Today I am going to continue my blog series on getting the most out of...
Jul. 11, 2024
This multipart post is focused on helping people navigate what can be a very stressful...
Jun. 27, 2024
As hard as it is to believe summer of 2024 is here already. We are...
Jun. 14, 2024
If you have ever spent any time with me you have probably heard my story...
Jun. 13, 2024
Last week, I talked about why we want you to support our campaign to ditch...
Jun. 06, 2024
In recent weeks we have launched our Don't Say DM (Deferred Maintenance) campaign. This was...
May. 30, 2024
Coming out of discussions and presentations from the APPA National Conference in Nashville that I...
May. 22, 2024
Here we are, our 100th blog post! For those of you that have been on...
May. 15, 2024
This week I continue my series where I share ideas and thoughts based on my...
May. 03, 2024
This week I continue sharing ideas based on conversations I had at the recent APPA...
May. 02, 2024
I recently attended an APPA conference in Nashville and sat in on a presentation by...
Apr. 25, 2024
While I was at the gym today I was listening to a podcast interview with...
Apr. 18, 2024
Here we are, the final post recapping our Ask Bill Anything webinar. Thanks for taking...
Apr. 11, 2024
In the realm of asset management, one question always looms large as was the case...
Apr. 04, 2024
How often should you reassess your buildings? This is an interesting question we encounter frequently...
Mar. 28, 2024
Continuing with our blog series highlighting the questions and answers from the Ask Bill Anything...
Mar. 21, 2024
We are going to continue our session where we expand on the questions and answers...
Mar. 15, 2024
This week we will be answering the third question we received in our Ask Bill...
Mar. 06, 2024
[video width="1920" height="1080" mp4="https://rothiams.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Roth-IAMS-Uncle-Sam-RC1.mp4" loop="true" autoplay="true"][/video] In a recent webinar I did called “Ask...
Feb. 29, 2024
Last week we began by making the case that you must understand the nature and...
Feb. 22, 2024
One of the most critical elements of any asset management program is a high level...
Feb. 13, 2024
This blog is going to be posted while I am on vacation with my family. ...
Feb. 08, 2024
Winter conference season is upon us folks. I just wrapped up two weeks of conferences...
Feb. 01, 2024
Although I (hope) possess more than four pieces of wisdom worth sharing, we have come...
Jan. 25, 2024
As we continue through our first blog series of 2024, I hope that some of...
Jan. 18, 2024
Welcome to my second post of the most influential wisdom that I have gained (so...
Jan. 11, 2024
I was having a conversation recently with a friend about the best pieces of wisdom...
Jan. 04, 2024
It's hard to believe that we are into the first week of 2024! I for...
Jul. 07, 2023
First off, let me start by saying I am not a heavy consumer of social...
Dec. 20, 2023
With the launch of our Preventative Maintenance (PM) program at the end of Part 3...
Dec. 12, 2023
Here we are with our third post on the two biggest hurdles to getting started...
Dec. 07, 2023
After last week's short interlude which allowed me to climb up on my soapbox and...
Dec. 01, 2023
Last week, I started a post on Equipment Inventory and Preventative Maintenance Planning, which I...
Nov. 22, 2023
Last week was the first of our new category of blogs, Operational Excellence, the second...
Nov. 16, 2023
After wrapping up another two-month blog series, I am excited to add a new category...
Nov. 07, 2023
We have arrived at the tenth and final post of this series. When I start...
Nov. 02, 2023
Now that we have introduced and dove into the details of each of the different...
Oct. 26, 2023
Last week I introduced the Element-Level Inventory (ELI) scope of work for facility condition data,...
Oct. 18, 2023
We have finally come to the most detailed and resource intensive methodology for collecting facility...
Oct. 12, 2023
Well, it only took me six posts to finally get to a point where you...
Oct. 05, 2023
In our last two posts, we explored the two most common types of building models...
Sep. 27, 2023
As part of our on-going series on the different types of facility condition datasets, this...
Sep. 22, 2023
Now that we have gone over how building modeling works, I wanted to provide a...
Sep. 14, 2023
This series of posts is going to explore the different types of Facility Condition datasets,...
Sep. 07, 2023
I have been working with a State-Level University system over the last couple of months...
Aug. 31, 2023
Last week I talked about the importance of finding and scheduling time to produce work,...
Aug. 24, 2023
As I write this, I am sitting in the Knoxville airport. It's a nice regional...
Aug. 18, 2023
On the wall of my home office, you will find a Serigraph Cel (a form...
Aug. 10, 2023
Last week's blog focused on how organizations can find themselves in a situation where they...
Aug. 03, 2023
A great many of the people I talk to complain about their CMMS (Work Order)...
Jul. 27, 2023
I hear a lot of people say that the world is getting more and more...
Jul. 21, 2023
I am always very pleased when a client is successful in securing additional funding to...
Jul. 13, 2023
This one is going to be a short post, but I felt that it was...
Jun. 01, 2023
When I set out to write this series, I knew it was going to be...
Jun. 29, 2023
"Patience My Young Padawan," the wise and famous Obi Wan Kenobi said to his apprentice,...
Jun. 21, 2023
We made it!!! 15 Posts, nearly 4 months and we are at the final "Peeling...
Jun. 15, 2023
Here we are, the outer layer of the "Onion". All of the work that we...
May. 18, 2023
Going from a "list of needs" provided in an engineering report (i.e., a condition assessment,...
May. 25, 2023
Nearly every public sector institution across North America (and around the world I presume) has...
Jan. 27, 2023
I am probably going to get a lot of heat for this post, but I...
May. 11, 2023
A nearly universal challenge that organizations face is a lack of sufficient funding to address...
May. 05, 2023
In the last post, I provided support for the idea of using multiple different tools...
Apr. 27, 2023
In the last post, I talked about the first temptation of filling your tool best,...
Apr. 20, 2023
After six previous posts, we are now three layers into the Integrated Asset Management "Onion"....
Apr. 13, 2023
Our journey to the top of the Pyramid is almost complete. This post will explore...
Mar. 29, 2023
We are going to take a break from our regularly scheduled trip through the layers...
Mar. 20, 2023
Today we are going to move beyond the core of the onion to the second...
Mar. 16, 2023
In the last post, I focused on the importance of aligning your Asset Management (AM)...
Mar. 09, 2023
Getting started can sometimes be the hardest part. The whole world is a blank sheet...
Mar. 02, 2023
What is in a name? It is an age-old question. I thought I would explore...
Feb. 23, 2023
I was recently asked, what is the best advice that you would give a professional...
Feb. 17, 2023
In my last two post, I reviewed the different considerations that one needs to factor...
Feb. 09, 2023
In Part 1 of this post, I introduced the idea of an evaluation period for...
Feb. 02, 2023
As on organization begins their asset management journey, one of the first questions that their...
Oct. 26, 2022
For over a decade, until around 2010, the FCA industry continued to be focused on...
Jan. 19, 2023
It always amazes me that some organizations that have millions (or billions) of dollars of...
Jan. 12, 2023
Building prioritized, multiyear capital plans is an exercise in juggling all the priorities that are...
Jan. 05, 2023
When we are collaborating with clients to support the development of prioritized, multiyear capital plans,...
Dec. 22, 2022
I have focused all my recent posts on technical topics related to facility and infrastructure...
Dec. 15, 2022
I just wrapped up a two-month series of posts on the evolution of the Facility...
Dec. 08, 2022
Last week I wrote about the influence that software has had on the evolution of...
Dec. 01, 2022
Over the past 6 posts, I have focused on the evolution and potential future for...
Nov. 24, 2022
As am I typing these words I am listening to the Hamilton soundtrack and this...
Nov. 18, 2022
No matter what type of organization you are a part of, you are going to...
Nov. 10, 2022
As we get into the mid-to-late 2010s, many clients were making informed decisions based on...
Nov. 03, 2022
Over the years, most FCAs were completed by design, project management and/or construction professionals "on...