Maintenance planning
The weekly schedule is the only maintenance plan that exists
Annual plans and budget spreadsheets do not fix a pump. A defensible weekly schedule does — here is the minimum data you need before you can build one.
6 min read
Resources
Notes from the maintenance floor and the back office
Short, practical write-ups on the process and data problems that decide whether an ERP implementation actually changes how the business runs.
Library
Guides and field notes
No gated PDFs. Written for planners, reliability engineers and maintenance managers who have to make the next schedule work.
Reliability
MTBF is useless without a failure definition
Most reliability reports disagree with each other because each one defines failure differently. A short note on making the metric comparable across sites.
5 min read
Spare parts
Why your min/max levels keep drifting
Reorder points set once and never reviewed slowly detach from actual consumption. A simple quarterly review that keeps stock aligned with demand.
7 min read
Asset data
The four fields that decide whether your asset register is usable
You do not need forty attributes per asset to start. You need four that make work order history and cost analysis possible from day one.
4 min read
Compliance
Building an audit pack without a pre-audit project
If evidence is captured at execution, the audit pack is a query. If it is reconstructed afterwards, it is a project. The difference is process design.
5 min read
Field service
Offline-first is a data model decision, not a mobile feature
Sync conflicts come from ambiguous ownership of records, not from network coverage. How to design field execution so reconnection is boring.
6 min read
Order to cash
Where your quotation margin disappears before the invoice
The gap between quoted and realised margin is usually created between order entry and delivery. Three handoffs to inspect before blaming the price list.
5 min read
Finance
Month-end close is a process design problem
If closing takes two weeks, the cause is upstream: unmatched receipts, manual journals and costs booked after the fact. A short diagnostic checklist.
6 min read
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