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...
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,...
