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# Tag: Wrench Time

##### 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 [...]

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Continuous Improvement
Data Quality
Maintenance Work Management
work order feedback
Work Orders
Wrench Time
Reliability

##### Determining optimal staffing for maintenance departments

October 12, 2021

By Philip Hanekom, Associate Consultant at Pragma Africa Any Asset Management (AM) system either fails or succeeds because of people. Competence, process discipline and capacity are key, and without these fundamentals, in place, any system is bound to be ineffective. This article will focus on capacity, but first, let’s take a quick look at the [...]

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Asset Replacement Value
Load Balancing
Maintenance Workload
Planned Utilisation
Plant operating model
Resource Planning
Tactical Maintenance
Wrench Time
Asset Management
Maintenance