by Dave Alexander | Apr 15, 2026 | Maintenance Strategy, Reliability Engineering
AI predictive maintenance is the fastest-growing technology investment in heavy industry. 65% of maintenance teams expect to adopt AI within the next 12 months, according to MaintainX’s 2025 State of Industrial Maintenance research. The dashboards are getting...
by Dave Alexander | Mar 22, 2026 | Maintenance Strategy, Reliability Engineering
Most preventive maintenance programs in heavy industry were not designed. They were inherited, copied from OEM manuals, or assembled over years by different planners working in isolation. The result is a maintenance program that generates scheduled work without...
by Dave Alexander | Mar 22, 2026 | RCM Articles, Reliability Engineering
By Dave Alexander, Managing Director, HolisticAM — Master of Maintenance and Reliability (Monash University); former Chair, Victorian Asset Management Council. Last updated: 8 September 2026. Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) is a structured analytical process...
by Dave Alexander | Mar 22, 2026 | Reliability Engineering, Weibull Analysis Articles
By Dave Alexander, Managing Director, HolisticAM. Master of Maintenance and Reliability (Monash University); former Chair, Victorian Asset Management Council. Last updated: 8 September 2026. Weibull analysis is a statistical method for analysing failure data to...
by Dave Alexander | Mar 22, 2026 | Reliability Engineering
Root cause analysis (RCA) is a structured investigation method used to identify the fundamental causes of failures, incidents, or undesired outcomes. The goal is not to assign blame but to understand the chain of causes that allowed an event to occur so that...
