Five signs a PPM programme is creating activity rather than reliability.
Review repeat failures, arbitrary frequencies, unclear acceptance standards, excessive overdue work and tasks with no defined failure mode.
Resources
Practical guidance for maintenance, reliability and compliance teams.
Clear explanations of the systems, evidence and decisions behind better equipment control.
Engineering insights
Useful principles without unnecessary jargon.
What a useful PUWER assessment should produce.
A useful assessment records equipment-specific evidence, prioritises risk, identifies owners and gives the site a controlled route to close every gap.
Why an asset register is more than a spreadsheet.
The register should define unique assets, hierarchy, location, ownership, criticality, technical references and connections to maintenance and compliance.
Why software alone does not fix maintenance.
Value comes from clean data, sensible workflows, task libraries, ownership, adoption and reporting designed around real operating processes.
What to control beyond the due date.
A strong system covers traceability, tolerance, certificate review, out-of-tolerance impact, labelling, ownership and interval optimisation.
What decision should each KPI support?
Use dashboards to prioritise investigation and action—not to display numbers with no defined owner, threshold or decision process.