by Dave Alexander | Aug 30, 2026 | Reliability Engineering, Skills development
“Reliability engineer” is one job title covering three different jobs, and most sites have hired the wrong one at least once. Some advertisements describe a maintenance planner with a better title. Some describe a data analyst who never leaves the office....
by Dave Alexander | Aug 30, 2026 | Maintenance Strategy, Reliability Engineering
The two terms get used interchangeably on projects, in tenders, and in most of what is written about them. We have caught the habit in our own guides. The interchange is not harmless. Projects have funded a “readiness” scope, received a maintenance build,...
by Dave Alexander | Aug 30, 2026 | Asset Management Plan, Reliability Engineering
Most new plants do not fail at first ore. They limp. The crushers turn, the concentrate ships, and the operating team spends year one discovering everything that should have been built before handover: the maintenance plans that do not exist, the spares that were...
by Dave Alexander | Aug 27, 2026 | Reliability Engineering
Defect elimination is the structured process of permanently removing the root causes of recurring failures rather than repeatedly repairing their symptoms. It runs as a standing site programme that ranks failures by business impact, investigates the highest-cost ones...
by Dave Alexander | Aug 27, 2026 | Reliability Engineering
A managed reliability service is a subscription under which an external team runs a site’s reliability engineering function: the failure analysis, the maintenance strategy work, the root cause investigations and the improvement register. The site gets a standing...
