by Dave Alexander | Sep 8, 2026 | Reliability Engineering
By Dave Alexander, Managing Director, HolisticAM. Master of Maintenance and Reliability (Monash University); former Chair, Victorian Asset Management Council. Published: 8 September 2026. Maintenance KPIs exist to change decisions, and that single test sorts the...
by Dave Alexander | Sep 8, 2026 | Reliability Engineering
By Dave Alexander, Managing Director, HolisticAM. Master of Maintenance and Reliability (Monash University); former Chair, Victorian Asset Management Council. Published: 8 September 2026. Ask three people on a mine site what the reliability engineering consultant is...
by Dave Alexander | Aug 30, 2026 | Asset Management Plan, Reliability Engineering
The most expensive assumption in operational readiness is that it comes in one flavour. A greenfield build, a brownfield expansion and a restart from care and maintenance all end the same way, with a plant that must run at design intent from day one, but they start...
by Dave Alexander | Aug 30, 2026 | Asset Management Plan, Operational Readiness, Reliability Engineering
Most “operational readiness frameworks” are a diagram. Boxes, arrows, a pyramid if the designer was feeling ambitious, and nothing underneath that tells you who owns each box, when its work must finish, or what evidence proves it is done. A diagram...
by Dave Alexander | Aug 30, 2026 | Reliability Engineering
Search this question and most of what comes back is about cloud computing: site reliability engineering for software teams, not for a plant that breaks. For the person actually holding the decision, a maintenance manager with a resignation letter on the desk, a role...
