by Dave Alexander | Sep 8, 2026 | Asset Management Plan, 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. Two questions decide whether operational readiness gets funded properly on a...
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 | 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 | Mar 22, 2026 | Asset Management Plan, Reliability Engineering
Asset management is the coordinated activity of an organisation to realise value from assets across their full lifecycle. Governed internationally by ISO 55001, it provides a systematic framework for making decisions about assets that align with business objectives...
by Dave Alexander | Mar 22, 2026 | Asset Management Plan, Reliability Engineering
Operational readiness is the work that makes a new, expanded, or recommissioned asset ready to run at design intent from the day it is handed over. It puts the maintenance strategy, spare parts, systems, and trained people in place before the asset enters service, so...
