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...
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...
