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Reliability Engineering Consulting

Reliability engineers who maintained the assets, not advised from a distance

HolisticAM’s reliability engineering service turns your failure data into maintenance strategies that hold up on site: Weibull analysis, FMECA, RCM, RBD modelling and spares analysis, delivered by engineers who came up inside Rio Tinto, BHP, Alcoa and MMG operations.

On a P&H 4100XPC shovel fleet, our data-driven strategy cut corrective maintenance from 56% to 37% of total maintenance in six months.
ISO 55001 aligned
Sole ANZ ReliaSoft distributor
OEM-experienced engineers, 20 years average on the tools
The capability test

Reliability is rarely one broken thing

The reliability of your assets is rarely down to one cause. It is the combination of maintenance strategy, data quality, execution discipline and engineering judgement that decides whether a fleet runs or fights fires. A consultant who has only ever seen the analysis side cannot weigh what a strategy costs to execute on a live site.

Our engineers write the Weibull models and have also stood in the workshops the recommendations land in. That is why our strategies arrive as service sheets and CMMS master data your planners can load, not findings your team still has to translate.

New to the discipline? Read the plain-English guide: What is Reliability Engineering?

What we deliver

Services built on seven core methods

Maintenance plan optimisation

Data-driven review of existing strategies: what to keep, change and kill, justified by failure history.

Maintenance plan development

New strategies built asset by asset from FMECA, delivered CMMS-ready.

RAM studies & assurance

Reliability, availability and maintainability modelling for design decisions and production targets.

Life cycle cost modelling

Whole-of-life cost of maintaining the asset, so replacement and upgrade calls are financial, not anecdotal.

Spare parts analysis

Critical and insurance spares determined by RBD modelling, as delivered for Hitachi EX5500/EX5600 excavator fleets.

Reliability audit & assessment

Where your maintenance function sits against good practice, and the roadmap to close the gap.

FMEA / FMECA

Facilitated criticality analysis that becomes the backbone of the strategy.

Reliability centred maintenance

Full RCM where the consequence of failure demands it, in ReliaSoft RCM++.

Life data analysis (Weibull)

Failure characteristics, MTBF and optimal replacement intervals from your own downtime data.

Root cause analysis

Apollo RCA facilitation for defect elimination, from certified trainers.

Reliability block diagrams

System-level modelling that shows which component reliability actually moves plant availability.

Training & mentoring

From reliability fundamentals to site-embedded mentoring, as delivered at Newcrest Cadia and Lihir.

Reliability in numbers

Strategies that moved the needle on real fleets

56% → 37%
Corrective maintenance share in six months (P&H 4100XPC fleet)
+112 hrs
Available time per truck reported over six months (Komatsu 930E fleet)
>90 hrs
MTBF sustained on the same 930E fleet after strategy optimisation
20 yrs
Average OEM and site experience of the engineers on these programmes

Numbers as published in the linked case studies. The 4100XPC programme is the fully baselined result: planned-to-corrective ratio was 44:56 before implementation, corrective fell to 37% within six months.

Proof

Case studies in text, not just pictures

P&H 4100XPC shovels — data-driven turnaround

Downtime analysis, Weibull models and FMECA review delivered as a new strategy with customised service sheets and SAP master data. Corrective maintenance fell from 56% to 37% of total in six months.

Read the case study

Komatsu 930E haul trucks — fleet optimisation

Fleet-wide review across multiple Australian open-cut mines: Weibull life data analysis, service-day execution, MTTR and NPV-assessed OEM upgrades. Reported gains of 112 available hours per truck over six months and MTBF held above 90 hours.

Read the case study

ANSTO Synchrotron — regulated-environment RCM

Eight RCM and CHAZOP studies across six new beam lines, facilitated remotely in ReliaSoft RCM++, with five reports contributing to ARPANSA regulatory submissions.

Read the case study

Newcrest Cadia & Lihir — capability building

Bespoke training and mentoring for site reliability engineers: reliability fundamentals, life data analysis, RBD modelling and RCM, each participant working in ReliaSoft RAM Suite.

Read the case study

“HolisticAM has been pivotal in transforming how we undertake maintenance on our assets. Their product knowledge, professionalism and their site experience sets them apart.”Engineering Manager, mining company (Komatsu 930E programme)
How an engagement starts

Start with the data, not a retainer

1

Reliability assessment

A bounded review of your failure data, strategy coverage and maintenance mix. You see where the losses are before committing further.

2

Strategy build

FMECA, Weibull and RCM applied where the criticality justifies them, producing a strategy your planners can schedule.

3

Load, embed, assure

Service sheets and master data loaded, your team trained and mentored, results tracked against the baseline.

The first step maps to our existing Reliability Assessment offer.

Questions

Reliability engineering, answered

What does a reliability engineering consultant actually deliver?
Maintenance strategies justified by your failure data: FMECA-based task lists, frequencies, spares recommendations and CMMS-ready master data, plus the Weibull and RBD analysis behind them. The deliverable is a loaded system, not a report.
We already have maintenance plans. Why are assets still failing?
Most inherited plans are OEM defaults never tuned to site duty. A data-driven review typically finds tasks that add no value alongside failure modes with no task at all. The 4100XPC case study shows what closing that gap did to the corrective share.
Do you work with our CMMS or ERP?
Yes. Strategy work lands as load-ready master data for your CMMS or ERP; the two systems we build for most are SAP and Pronto. Task lists, maintenance items, plans and BOM inputs, the way our published fleet programmes delivered them.
What software do you use?
The ReliaSoft suite: Weibull++ for life data analysis, XFMEA for FMECA, RCM++ and BlockSim for system modelling. We are the sole ReliaSoft distributor for Australia and New Zealand, and we train teams on it.
Can you build our team’s capability rather than just consult?
Yes. Training and mentoring programmes like those delivered at Newcrest Cadia and Lihir run alongside strategy work, so the capability stays on site.

Which asset is costing you the most right now?

Bring the downtime data for the fleet or plant that hurts. We will show you what the failure characteristics say, and what a data-driven strategy would change.