The Blind Spot in Reliability: Why Supporting Assets Deserve Focus
When a mud rush struck Freeport Indonesia’s Grasberg mine this September, operations halted and rescue teams mobilized to save trapped miners. Grasberg is one... Read more.
Algal Diesel: A Destination Fuel for Asset Management Professionals
Introduction: Decarbonization Without Compromising Reliability
Asset management professionals - design engineers, EPCMs, operations managers, and maintenance an... Read more.
Why Carbon Baselines Belong Beside Reliability in Asset Monitoring
Executive Summary
For decades, asset-intensive industries have monitored equipment to improve reliability, reduce unplanned downtime, and cut maintenance costs.... Read more.
Why Reliability Leaders Shouldn’t Miss the 2025 SMRP Annual Conference
What if you could eliminate 80% of your unplanned downtime? What if you could justify a new reliability technology with a payback period measured in months, not... Read more.
Why the Right Hydraulic Fluid Boosts Reliability and Sustainability
Hydraulic fluid selection has always mattered. But in today’s industrial landscape—where environmental performance, cost per ton, and asset availability are... Read more.
How Rare Earths Became a Hidden Risk to Reliability Programs
Rare earth elements (REEs) are the invisible enablers of modern industry. These obscure-sounding materials—names like neodymium, dysprosium, and cerium—rare... Read more.
Why Shop Floor Training Fails – And How to Build Precision Instead
After more than three decades in industrial engineering and asset management, and having trained or overseen the training of thousands of tradespeople, supervis... Read more.
The Smart Way to Use AI in Maintenance and Reliability? With Experts
Augmented Intelligence, Not Artificial Wisdom
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming the next frontier in physical asset management. From predicting failure t... Read more.
Rethinking Maintenance: Why the 89% Rule Doesn’t Fit All Assets
What I’m about to say may sound like heresy. I’ve spent my career championing condition monitoring and condition-based maintenance (CBM), and I firmly belie... Read more.
Why Standardized Work Is the First Step Toward Reliable Operations
Maintenance isn’t jazz. It’s not improvisational. It’s repeatable work. And because it’s repeatable, it can be standardized, executed precisely, and con... Read more.
Driving Maintenance Effectiveness with Standardized Work Plans
Appearing at Mastering SAP Connect – Gold Coast, Australia June 5–6, 2025
Despite decades of digital transformation and system upgrades, many industrial ope... Read more.
What’s It Worth? The Dollars & $ense of Upper Quartile Asset Management
Imagine a $10 billion mining company—not underperforming, not best-in-class, just… average. The plants run, but not without drama. The maintenance budget cr... Read more.
The Case for Standard Job Plans: 10 Proven Maintenance Benefits
Maintenance is repeatable. We change the same filters, replace the same crusher liners, torque the same bolts, change the same drive motors, lubricate the same... Read more.
Overall Equipment Effectiveness: Optimize for Profit, Not Perfection
"Don’t chase 100% OEE—optimize OEE to maximize profit."
That’s a mantra I’ve repeated in many conference keynotes, and it bears repeating now as more or... Read more.
How Prospect Theory Warps Your Maintenance Decision-Making Logic
In asset management and maintenance, we like to think we make data-driven, rational decisions—but the truth is, we don't. Cognitive biases pull us off track, ... Read more.
The 10 Must-Have Traits of a Top Reliability Engineer
Executing reliability engineering is as much about behaviors as it is about skills. Skills define how to analyze failures, optimize maintenance strategies, and ... Read more.
Are Your MTBF and MTTF Numbers Giving False Confidence?
Maintenance and reliability teams rely on mean time between failure (MTBF) and mean time to failure (MTTF) to guide decision-making—but these numbers can be d... Read more.
Return On Net Assets (RONA): The Ultimate Test of Asset Management
Return on Net Assets (RONA) is commonly referred to as a measure of management effectiveness. From an accounting perspective, RONA is the income statement divid... Read more.
Strategic Asset Management: A Key Driver of Energy Efficiency
The Untapped Energy Opportunity
Energy efficiency isn't just about turning off the lights when you leave a room. In the mining industry, asset management is the... Read more.
It’s Time to Lean In and Start Building a High-Reliability Culture
Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast
As management guru Peter Drucker famously said, "Culture eats strategy for breakfast." No matter how well-crafted your maint... Read more.
