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Practical tools to diagnose, quantify and fix your maintenance performance
Free assessments, calculators, templates and guides, the same tools we use in our training and coaching. Online assessments run instantly. Files are emailed to you.
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Road to Reliability Scorecard
Score your site against all four elements of the Road to Reliability Framework and get a personalised report showing exactly where to start.
10–15 minutes · instant results
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Road to Reliability Framework
The complete four-part framework for escaping reactive maintenance, as a free PDF guide. The best first read on this page.
27-page PDF, emailed to you
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Planning & Scheduling Scorecard
Score your planning and scheduling performance and get a personalised 20+ page report on where and how to improve.
20–30 minutes · instant results
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Wrench Time Calculator
Estimate your maintenance productivity and put a dollar figure on what better planning and scheduling is worth at your site. Your business case, ready to present.
Excel, PC and Mac versions
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Preventive Maintenance Scorecard
Find out whether your PM program is actually preventing failures or just consuming resources, and what to fix first.
10–15 minutes · instant results
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Reliability Culture Ladder
See which rung of the culture ladder your site sits on (from reactive to proactive) and what it takes to climb to the next one.
PDF tool, emailed to you
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Ready-to-use templates and guides
FMEA template
A ready-to-use FMEA template to identify failure modes and build a PM program based on what actually fails, not what the OEM manual says.
Excel template, emailed to you
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Corrective maintenance process flow
A clear, proven process flow for corrective maintenance (from identification to close-out) to standardise how work moves through your site.
Excel template, emailed to you
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Creating work instructions that work
How to write work instructions your team will actually use: clear, consistent and built for the job, not the binder.
PDF guide, emailed to you
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VideoPrinciples of maintenance planning
Learn the core principles that make maintenance planning effective—and how to apply them in your plant. Free training video.
VideoA brief history of maintenance
Understand how maintenance thinking has evolved over time and why this history is key to building effective programs today. Watch the free lesson video now.
VideoPrinciples of an effective maintenance program
Learn the key principles of an effective PM program that prevents failure and improves reliability. Watch the free lesson.
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