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 plan to deploy it by the end of 2027. The dashboards are getting slicker. The vendor presentations are getting more convincing. And the pilot budgets are...
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
Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) is a structured analytical process used to determine the most appropriate maintenance strategy for each failure mode of a physical asset. Developed from aviation safety research and formalised under SAE JA1011, it is now the...
by Dave Alexander | Mar 22, 2026 | Reliability Engineering, Weibull Analysis Articles
Weibull analysis is a statistical method for analysing failure data to characterise failure behaviour and predict asset reliability. It is one of the most widely used tools in reliability engineering, enabling practitioners to move beyond guesswork and base...
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...
by Dave Alexander | Mar 22, 2026 | FMEA Articles, Reliability Engineering
FMECA (Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis) is a structured, bottom-up reliability methodology used to identify all potential failure modes of an asset or system, evaluate the effects of each failure, and rank them by criticality to prioritise maintenance...
