Tag: Maintenance Work Management
The art of balancing work order feedback with compliance, learning, and wrench time
May 6, 2026
Most organisations don’t choose their work order feedback culture. They drift into it. A new compliance push arrives, and the close-out screen grows by ten fields. A reliability engineer asks for better failure history, and another ten appear. Someone wants cleaner KPI reporting, but more fields keep getting bolted on “because we might need them […]
Why a qualified maintenance planner changes more than maintenance
April 23, 2026
In many plants, the same pattern repeats itself. Work arrives late. Materials are chased at the last minute. Supervisors juggle priorities. Technicians are pulled into urgent jobs. Preventive work slips. Breakdowns steal time that no one can recover. Most teams do not end up in this cycle because they lack effort. They end up there because […]
Asset Management Awareness Training that fits real work
February 6, 2026
Author | Karen Greyling, Business Development Manager If you’ve ever thought, “We don’t need another long course… we need everyone speaking the same asset management language”, you’re not alone. Many organisations struggle with asset management, not because people lack experience, but because teams operate with different assumptions, terminology and priorities. Our Asset Management Awareness Training […]
Quality – The Invisible Shutdown Objective
July 20, 2022
Shutdown planning – the importance of defining its objectives When planning to shutdown, a conundrum faced by all asset owners is how to compress the duration of the shutdown, and maximise the planned uptime of the assets – all without sacrificing the shutdown’s objectives. If the objectives, scope and deliverables are not clearly defined at […]
An insight into Maintenance Work Management
July 12, 2021
Pragma Academy Subject Matter Expert Tim Beavon I have been working in the asset and maintenance management fields my entire professional life. It has always astounded me that organisations continually appear to feel frustrated at their organisation’s inability to get the maintenance planning office “right”. In this article, I will endeavour to convince you that, […]
