Leaders Who Ask This One Question First Build Stronger Plant Culture
In every production facility, failures eventually occur. Pumps fail. Gearboxes overheat. Bearings...
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Maintenance and Reliability
Plant Managers Who Skip the Floor Are Managing With Their Eyes Closed
The Conference Room Trap Plant managers are busy. Budget reviews, safety committee meetings,...
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Failure Time Frames Help Maintenance Teams Plan and Save Resources
For decades, the debate over how people report their machine findings when using different...
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Why Preventive Maintenance Still Begins With Six Simple Tasks
Preventive Maintenance (PM), as a process, has been around as long as the wheel. When something —...
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Stop Setting Condition Monitoring Alarm Thresholds and Forgetting Them
The “install and wait” approach to condition monitoring is a classic trap....
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Why the Best Condition Monitoring Programs Use Fewer Sensor Types
Walk through any plant with a mature condition monitoring program, and you’ll see the evidence of...
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The Reliability Engineer Role Most Plants Get Wrong
I co-authored an entire chapter on the reliability engineer position description in Rules of Thumb...
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How to Sell a Reliability Program to a CFO in 10 Minutes
You’ve been asking for budget. You’ve sent emails with subject lines like “Reliability Improvement...
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Onboarding a New Maintenance Tech: What the First 90 Days Should Look Like
You just hired a maintenance technician. It took months to find someone qualified, the recruiter...
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Oil Sampling Mistakes That Make Your Lab Results Worthless
Oil analysis is one of the most powerful condition monitoring tools available to maintenance...
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Why Asset Performance Is the Only Lever You Actually Control
On 18 March 2026, I’ll be back in Perth for the Mainstream Summit at the Perth Convention Centre....
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How a Single Plant Walk-Down Can Fund Your Entire Maintenance Budget
Every maintenance manager has had the same conversation with finance at least once. You need a new...
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