Industrial maintenance & reliability consulting

Fewer breakdowns.
More planned work.
Better outage readiness.

When the same failures keep returning and maintenance becomes a daily emergency, the cost goes well beyond a repair.

KANE works with plant managers and business leaders in power generation, oil and gas, water, food and beverage, chemical and manufacturing industries. Fixed-fee assessments identify what's driving the problem, prioritize action by risk and cost, and deliver a practical 90-day improvement plan.

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Experience across industrial operators, technology providers and specialty service organizations

The KANE approach

Operational clarity. Actionable priorities.

Start with the plant’s current challenges, establish priorities, and build a practical path forward.

  1. 01
    AssessUnderstand maintenance practices and operational risk.
  2. 02
    PrioritizeRank gaps by consequence, urgency and business value.
  3. 03
    ExecuteGive teams clear owners, actions and measures.
Measure progress against your own baseline

What's happening at your plant?

Pick the situation that sounds most like yours. Each assessment is fixed-fee, stands on its own and feeds the next.

  1. When everything is priority one, and PM effort is spread thin. 01 Asset Criticality Ranking1–2 weeks · One site, one unit or areaMost clients start here
  2. When the crew is busy but breakdowns keep happening. 02 Maintenance Effectiveness Audit2 weeks · One site, 12 months of work orders
  3. When technicians can't find the right drawing or manual. 03 Asset Data and Documentation Review2 weeks · One critical system, boundary agreed on your P&ID
  4. When AI is being pitched and nobody has a plan for the crew. 04 Industrial AI Readiness and Adoption3–4 weeks · One site, two to three use cases
  5. 8–16 weeks before an outage, while gaps can still be closed. 05 Outage / Turnaround Readiness Review2 weeks · Up to 300 outage work orders

Not sure which fits? Book a 30-minute call and you'll leave knowing which assessment fits, or whether you need one at all. Compare all five →

Why KANE exists

Catch failure at its potential stage, not when it actually fails.

Most equipment failures give a warning before they stop production. Point P, potential failure, is when a developing failure can first be detected. Point F, functional failure, is when the equipment can no longer perform its required function. The time between them is the window to plan the repair instead of reacting to a breakdown.

Plants living at F pay for it in unplanned downtime, overtime, expedited parts and lost production. KANE's work moves the plant back toward P: knowing which assets matter, detecting problems early, and planning the work before it becomes an emergency.

Maintenance is where production is won or lost, yet it's treated as a cost to cut instead of a capability to build.

Adil Najeeb · Read the mission

The P-F curve Equipment condition over time. Condition holds steady, then begins to decline at Point P, potential failure, when the failure can first be detected, and falls to Point F, functional failure, when the required function is lost. The interval between Point P and Point F is the window to plan and fix the problem; after Point F the plant is reacting. P-F interval · your window to plan Equipment condition Time → P potential failure F functional failure Know what matters Detect · plan · fix React
The P-F curve: Point P is potential failure and Point F is functional failure. The earlier a developing failure is found, the more of the repair can be planned.

What you get from every engagement

A ranked list of what to fix first

Each finding tied to the risk or cost it carries, so the first dollars go where they matter.

A 90-day plan with owners

Written for the crew and supervisors you have, not an ideal team you don't.

Working files your team keeps

Registers, scorecards and templates your team can keep updating after the engagement.

A check-in 30 days later

A short review of progress against the plan, included in the fee.

Technology platform

Connecting scattered plant information

KANE is developing NUXIOPS, an Intelligent Operations Platform for industrial data and AI analysis. It connects authorized information around the asset or event so teams can investigate with more complete context and make faster, evidence-backed decisions.

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  • Consulting comes first. Every recommendation stands on its own. NUXIOPS is never required to get value from an engagement.
  • A handoff you own. Where it helps, an engagement can close with an NUXIOPS-ready handoff: an asset ID crosswalk, source register, action register and metric dictionary, in formats your team can use with any system.
  • Your data stays yours. No client data goes into NUXIOPS without a written scope, approved access and a security review.

From the blog

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Capital Project Management: Where Reliability Gets Bought, Built In, or Lost

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Reliability Centered Design: The Cheapest Place to Fix a Failure Is the Drawing

Design reliability, maintainability and condition monitoring into new assets before failures and maintenance costs are locked in.

November 3, 2026 Maintenance & reliability

Root Cause Analysis: Replacing the Part Again Is Not a Fix

Use evidence, causal analysis and verified corrective actions to stop repeat equipment failures rather than replacing the same part again.

October 29, 2026

Start with a 30-minute call

Tell KANE about your plant, the assets that worry you and what you have tried. The call will help determine which assessment fits, or whether you need one at all.

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Or contact Adil directly:
[email protected] · (657) 478-8727