HeyJaredMaintenance Break
Bite-sized lessons, one break at a time.Whether you're on a coffee break or between jobs, Maintenance Break is your quick fix of practical insights into asset management, maintenance strategies, and reliability.
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The 5,000 Hours You Lose When Nobody's Watching (opens the original)
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Same site. Same fleet. Same final drives, same duty. Oneera: final drives ran to 20,000 hours before rebuild. A few years later: 15,000. Nobody decided to stop watching the oil. It just stopped being anyone's daily job. Pete and Drew break down FLAC (Fuel, Lubricant, Air, Coolant) as the full chain, not just an occasional oil sample: receiving and storing it clean, dispensing it right, monitoring it in service, and acting on what the results tell you. Three people control it day to day: the Main
Design for Maintainability: Ten Centimeters to the Left (opens the original)
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A grease point on a conveyor drive, tucked behind the guarding. To reach it: isolate the whole conveyor, pull the guard, grease it, put the guard back, re-verify. Half an hour, gone, every single week - for the life of the asset. It could have sat ten centimeters to the left and never needed any of it. That's design for maintainability in one image. Not a poster slogan - a specific check run during the engineering phase, before a design becomes real. Pete and Drew walk through what that review a
Workshop Capacity: Same Bay Count, a Fraction of the Work (opens the original)
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Pete ran the same fleet through two completely different ways to work out how many workshop bays a site actually needs for their mobile fleet and landed on the same number both times. The catch: one method took weeks longer than the other, and it wasn't the accuracy that changed. Pete and Drew break down zero-base (build it up task by taskfrom the full maintenance strategy) versus top-down (start from fleet availability and sort the downtime you already have). Zero-base gets you there, but its a
Equipment Readiness: The 80% You Can Build at a Desk, and the 20% You Can't (opens the original)
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The first 797F haul truck fleet built on site relocated its filter mounting points for a good reason: ground level, not wedged on a ladder in the chassis. Nobody wrote it into the documentation. When the crew walked all forty service procedures against the real machine, eleven needed something changed. In this episode, Pete and Drew close the four-part Operational Readiness series with the Equipment lens - the eighty percent of a maintenance strategy you can build at a desk, and the twenty perce
Systems Readiness: A Populated-But-Wrong System Tells You a Lie With Confidence (opens the original)
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Monday morning. The electric-drive haul fleet's landed, the crew's through handover, and it's time for the first scheduled service. The planner opens the CMMS - and there's nothing in the system to plan against. The functional location doesn't even exist yet. In this episode, Pete and Drew go deep on the Systems lens of Operational Readiness. Running it through the JEBS PCR Triad, they break down why a populated-but-wrong bill of materials is worse than an empty one; why materials readiness has
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