Underappreciating and Misunderstanding the Reliability Engineer
August 2, 2022Blog, Maintenance & Reliability
“In our organisation, Reliability Engineers are not utilized properly. Leadership do not understand what they should be doing, and they end up doing everything across the maintenance function, except what they should be doing – thinking about reliability and preventing failure”. HEAD OF
Read MoreWhat’s Causing the Increase in Mental Health & Well-being Challenges for our Maintenance Workforce?
June 20, 2022Blog, People & Leadership, Smart Technology
Mental health continues to be a major issue in the workplaces of our MAINSTREAM community. This rated as the #1 challenge in the annual MAINSTREAM State of Asset Management Report. Many companies reported that the issue is greater than it’s ever been and getting worse. Poor mental health can have
Read MoreThe State of Asset Management Report 2022
March 30, 2022Industry Research
Since 1995, the MAINSTREAM research team has polled our community of thousands of Maintenance, Reliability and Asset Management professionals to glean distinctive insights into the barriers and challenges faced, and the opportunities on offer, in their quest for achieving asset management
Read MoreHow Practical Industrial Sustainability Can Lead to Increased Profits
March 2, 2022Operations
When we think of environmental sustainability, increased compliance often comes to mind. For manufacturing, mines, process plants, and other industrial sites, environmental sustainability is very much about controlling various inputs and outputs. A lot of focus is placed upon greenhouse gas (GHG)
Read MoreHow AGL Exploited their Existing People, Process and Technology to Drive Transformation
March 2, 2022Blog, Smart Technology
While machines are generating more data with increasing granularity, our most seasoned experts are leaving with all their accumulated experience. So why are we buried in data and starving for insight? Common sense says once every sensor, machine and system is integrated, we can start to reap the
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