--- title: "Reliability Archives" description: "Reliability" image: https://www.pragmaworld.net/wp-content/uploads/pragma-social-placeholder-blue.jpg canonical: https://www.pragmaworld.net/tag/reliability/ url: https://pragma-world.getmd.ai/tag/reliability/.md last_converted: 2026-10-30T05:03:10.672Z --- # 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 [...] ##### Tags Continuous Improvement Data Quality Maintenance Work Management work order feedback Work Orders Wrench Time Reliability ##### 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 [...] ##### Tags critical spare parts inventory optimisation maintenance inventory Maintenance Planning material management MRO inventory MRO spares operations Spare Parts Optimisation stockout risk supply chain working capital Asset Management Inventory Management Reliability Spare Parts Management ##### 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 [...] ##### Tags AMAT asset management awareness training Asset Performance capability building common language Continuous Improvement Decision Making Engineering Leadership Maintenance Work Management module-based learning onboarding operational excellence role-based learning Asset Management training eLearning ISO 55000 ISO 55001 Maintenance management Pragma Academy Reliability ##### 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 [...] ##### Tags AMIP 5 Asset Management Improvement Planning Asset Management Maturity Asset Performance Benchmarking Continuous Improvement Maintenance Strategy Asset Management ISO 55001 Reliability ##### 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 [...] ##### Tags FI Process Proactive Reactive Focused Improvement Reliability ##### 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 [...] ##### Tags Maintainability Maintenance Readiness Operations Readiness Reliability Block Diagrams ROI Reliability ##### 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 [...] ##### Tags Maintenance Strategy Maintenance Tactic Performance Reactive Maintenance Safety Hazards South African Department of Mineral Resources Unplanned Maintenance Condition monitoring Mining Reliability