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# Tag: Reliability Engineering

##### When Finance and Operations agree on spares

July 28, 2026

MRO spares are often the source of a familiar business tension. Finance wants to reduce unnecessary inventory, free up working capital and avoid dead stock. Operations wants the right spare parts available when critical assets need them. Both are right. The problem is that many spare parts decisions are still made without a shared, factual [...]

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asset availability
inventory optimisation
maintenance inventory
MRO spare parts
Operational risk
Reliability Engineering
Spare Parts Optimisation
working capital
Maintenance management
Spare Parts Management

##### You don’t train for a marathon by running a marathon

July 22, 2026

Why shutdown readiness depends on applying lessons before the next major event A major shutdown is one of the most expensive and complex events an asset-intensive organisation will undertake. Effective shutdown readiness is built long before the plant goes offline. The plant may be offline for several weeks, production stops, contractors arrive in large numbers [...]

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Lessons learned
Maintenance Planning
Operational risk
Reliability Engineering
Shutdown Management
Shutdown Planning
Shutdown readiness
Turnaround management

##### Future Trends in Asset Management | Near-Term Impact

September 9, 2022

As the global economy continues to adapt to the complex effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) professionals need to figure out how to keep assets productive and safe in a disrupted world. Hybrid working models and the digitisation of maintenance management processes are evolving, and new trends [...]

##### Tags

Business Models
Digital Asset Management
Digitalisation
Maintenance Readiness
Reliability Engineering

##### Training Pathways for Aspiring Reliability Engineers

September 20, 2021

Good reliability engineering forms the cornerstone of an organisation’s ability to deliver its asset management objectives. In our first article on this topic, The Role and Importance of Reliability Engineering, we discussed the role and responsibilities of a reliability engineer. We looked at where and how reliability engineers (REs) fit into an organisation, the data [...]

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Asset Management Landscape
Basic Data Analysis
Condition Monitoring Essentials
Financial decision-making
Learning Pathways
Maintenance Plan Development
Measuring and Managing Performance
Reliability Engineering
Reliability Engineering Learning Pathways
Reliability Engineering Practice
Spare Parts Optimisation
Structured Problem Solving

##### The role and importance of Reliability Engineering

August 31, 2021

The question often arises on the actual role and responsibility of a Reliability Engineer. This article considers where Reliability Engineers fit into an organisation, what kind of data they require, and when and how it should be provided. We also look at their key challenges and possible solutions to address these challenges. In more recent [...]

##### Tags

Asset Health Monitoring
Asset Tactics Development
Defect Elimination
Financial decision-making
Operational Readiness
RAMS
Reliability Engineering
asset condition