This is the story of Reliability Centered Maintenance, the systematic approach that reduced maintenance workloads by up to 70% across aviation, military, and industrial applications.

In 1960, airlines were spending fortunes on scheduled maintenance yet still experiencing unexpected failures. This paradox led to Reliability-Centered Maintenance—a 7-question framework that eliminates maintenance guesswork by focusing on actual consequences rather than arbitrary schedules. Whether you're maintaining a car, home systems, or industrial equipment, you'll learn to stop over-maintaining expensive parts while preventing costly surprises like backup generators failing when you need them most. The methodology helps you spot small problems before they cascade into big disasters, using the same systematic thinking that revolutionized aviation safety.

The Royal Australian Navy cut preventative maintenance labor by 75%, while power plants save hundreds of thousands per day during peak periods. In 30 minutes, discover how to turn maintenance from a cost center into a competitive advantage by letting actual risk—not routine—drive decisions.

What's actually inside a model library? What's the difference between a model library of physics based and data driven models?

Listen and learn.

Why is vibration such a useful method for understanding the health of rotating or reciprocating equipment? This episode talks about what vibration means, how it can be used for detection and then examples of how it can be used to diagnose the cause of issues.

This is the opening episode about modeling methods for condition monitoring or predictive maintenance. We talk about theoretical (rule/logic based) versus empirical (data driven) models, give a few examples, and then close with the topic of explainability. There’s a lot more to come on methods, but this is the start!

Increasing production and decreasing maintenance cost; what more could you ask for?

A short discussion on how APM generates value and a few methods for estimating a reasonable expected value.

Why don’t people walk around putting broomsticks on machines anymore?

Reliability Centered Maintenance, Nowlan and Heap, 1978