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Maintenance Program Design & Strategy

The Silent Failure Modes PMs Miss

December 21, 2025|Nicholas Benedict

Some failures don’t make noise. They drift, fatigue, contaminate, and decay quietly while PMs get completed on schedule. This post breaks down the silent failure modes most PM programs miss—and...

When PMs Create More Failures Than They Prevent

December 21, 2025|Nicholas Benedict

Preventive Maintenance doesn’t always prevent failure. Sometimes it causes it. From over-lubrication to unnecessary adjustments, well-intended PMs can quietly damage equipment while everyone celebrates perfect compliance. This post looks at...

Why PMs Become Checkbox Rituals

December 21, 2025|Nicholas Benedict

Preventive Maintenance doesn’t turn into a checkbox ritual by accident. It happens when speed replaces attention, metrics replace judgment, and PMs stop evolving with the machines they’re meant to protect....

Why PM Compliance Is a Bad Metric

December 20, 2025|Nicholas Benedict

PM compliance looks good on a dashboard, but it doesn’t tell you whether your machines are actually being protected. When completion becomes the goal, inspections lose meaning and failures slip...

Why Preventive Maintenance Programs Fail (And How to Fix Them)

December 20, 2025|Nicholas Benedict

Preventive Maintenance doesn’t usually fail because no one’s doing the work. It fails because the work stops evolving. PMs turn into routines, metrics replace judgment, and failures keep slipping through...

Maintenance Execution & Value

The Maintenance Value of Walking the Floor Without a Work Order

December 12, 2025|Nicholas Benedict

Walking the floor without a work order looks like doing nothing—right up until it prevents the failure no dashboard ever saw coming. Machines don’t fail on spreadsheets. They fail after...

Asset-Specific PM Playbooks

Keep Your Pneumatic Cylinders Alive: PM Tips to Avoid Catastrophic Air Leaks

November 20, 2025|Nicholas Benedict

Most people think pneumatic cylinders are simple: compressed air pushes a piston, stuff moves, profit. But if you’re leaning on those cylinders day in and day out, they’re more like...