Ever get the feeling the world is slowly breaking down around you? I was travelling last week and got to spend an extra four hours at the airport because the landing gear on my intended flight ‘wasn’t behaving as it should’.  Last night I sat down to watch the CBC News and Peter Mansbridge said they had “a massive computer breakdown at the CBC, right across the system right across the country”.  Not to mention exploding mining operations.  Is it because the economy is bad and no one is paying to fix anything or is it that companies just don’t know when things are going to break?

Why isn’t everyone using OPC to monitor their assets?  Would the CBC computers have gone down if they had read “Maintaining Healthy IT Assets”?  Or at least they could have considered redundancy solutions like those outlined in “The Power of Prevention”.