Maintenance & Reliability Improvement
A free, interactive two-hour workshop for plant managers, maintenance leaders, supervisors, planners, engineers and operations teams.
Choose one topic that reflects a real challenge in your operation. I will teach practical methods, apply them to an example from your plant, and use the discussion to understand where the team needs help.
A working session, not a reading session
The purpose of these trainings is to help your team think proactively about maintenance rather than reactively, and make a measurable impact on the reliability and availability of the plant.
Choose one workshop
From Reactive Maintenance to Effective PM
Understand why a busy maintenance team can still experience repeated failures.
- Use the P-F curve: Point P is potential failure and Point F is functional failure.
- Separate useful preventive maintenance from calendar tasks that do not control a failure mode.
- Identify one recurring failure and decide what evidence, task or design change could move the team earlier in the failure process.
Asset Criticality and Maintenance Priorities
Create a shared way to decide which assets deserve the most attention.
- Define consequence categories for safety, environment, production, quality, cost and reputation.
- Build a simple likelihood and consequence scoring method.
- Use the result to focus PM effort, spares, inspections and reliability work instead of treating every asset as priority one.
Maintenance Data Quality and Asset Records
Make maintenance history useful for decisions, analysis and future AI applications.
- Distinguish an asset register, asset hierarchy, tag identity, failure code and work order closeout.
- Identify the minimum information needed to describe a failure and the work performed.
- Map one critical asset across CMMS, drawings, manuals, historian data, MOC records and field evidence.
Planning and Scheduling That Works
Improve the path from identified work to a ready job and a reliable weekly schedule.
- Define what “ready to schedule” means: scope, labor, skills, materials, permits, access and documentation.
- Separate planning from scheduling and match work to people, skills and availability.
- Use schedule compliance, break-in work and backlog health to find where the work system is failing.
Outage and Turnaround Readiness
Find the gaps that can turn an outage plan into lost time and expensive field decisions.
- Build a work scope that includes job packages, dependencies, access, permits, materials and contractors.
- Use a readiness review to expose missing engineering, drawings, parts, inspections and approvals.
- Discuss how to protect startup, contingency and closeout time before the outage begins.
Connecting Plant Knowledge for Better Decisions
Reduce the time technicians and engineers spend searching for trusted information.
- Trace one equipment problem through drawings, manuals, work history, alarms, trends, MOC changes and field observations.
- Discuss document authority, asset identity, version control and links back to original evidence.
- Define what the next shift or a new employee must be able to find without relying on tribal knowledge.
Industrial AI Readiness for Maintenance Teams
Separate useful, governed AI applications from disconnected demonstrations.
- Assess whether asset, work order, document, historian and MOC information is accessible and trustworthy.
- Select a bounded use case where AI can help gather evidence, identify patterns or prepare a recommendation.
- Define human approval, evidence citations, access controls and measures of success before a pilot starts.
We will use your operation as the example
Bring one recurring failure, maintenance backlog problem, planning challenge, outage concern, documentation gap or AI question. The session includes whiteboard discussion and practical exercises so the team can connect the methods to its own work.
After the workshop, we can discuss whether a focused assessment, improvement project, training program or advisory engagement would be useful. The training is free and does not obligate your organization to buy consulting services.
Discuss the right topic for your team
Book a short meeting and tell me about your audience, site and current challenge. We will select the workshop that will create the most useful conversation.