Tag: Reliability
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 MRO inventory is different from other inventory classes
April 13, 2026
MRO inventory differs from other inventory classes because demand is irregular, the consequences of stockouts are often far greater, criticality matters more than usage velocity, and repairable items and obsolescence add complexity that traditional inventory models do not handle well. Most businesses do not lose uptime because they do not own spare parts. They lose […]
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 […]
Beyond compliance: Why repeated maturity assessments define asset performance leadership
November 21, 2025
Author | Stephan Kornelius – Pragma Professional Services Business Lead In asset-intensive industries, leaders face mounting pressure to deliver sustainable performance amid budget constraints, rising risk, and increasing scrutiny from boards and investors. Yet many organisations still lack an objective, repeatable way to understand how effectively their assets are being managed – or how asset […]
Are you proactively shaping your focused improvement process or is it evolving organically?
May 31, 2024
Author | André Jordaan, Pragma Partner Consultant Focused improvement (FI) is the overarching process used to improve an organisation. This might mean either reacting to a defect or making an improvement in the management of physical assets – the assets, processes and activities that enable a company to achieve its goals. You might have an […]
Reliability Block Diagrams in Maintenance Readiness
April 11, 2022
Preparing a new or refurbished plant ready for commissioning is no small feat. The anticipated honeymoon phase of a newly commissioned plant with equipment operating optimally, production being at the required rate, and no unplanned stoppages can be short-lived if the vital element of asset care is not in place. To avoid performance and operational […]
Condition Monitoring for Mining Performance & Safety
February 17, 2022
Mining reserves in South Africa are vast. According to statistics from the South African Department of Mineral Resources and the US Geological Survey our ore reserves amount to a value of more than US$2.5 trillion [1]. Conversely, the industry is in crisis – why? Costs have become prohibitive, primarily due to years of lack of […]
