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Practitioner takes on IBM Maximo, maintenance operations, KPI strategy, and reliability engineering. No fluff, no consultant-speak — just what works and what doesn't from twenty years in the field.

April 2026 KPIs

Your PdM Model Can’t Tell a Bad Sensor from a Dying Bearing

Sensor-vs-Asset Degradation Disambiguation (SADD) quantifies how cleanly your analytics stack distinguishes instrument faults from actual asset degradation.

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April 2026 KPIs

Your Model Predicted Failure in 14 Days. The Bearing Takes 21 to Get Here.

Actionable Prognostic Horizon (APH) measures usable prediction lead time — model foresight minus real-world response latency. If the result is negative, the prediction was operationally useless.

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April 2026 KPIs

Your PdM Model Is 92% Accurate and Still Losing Money

Alert Net Economic Yield (ANEY) measures the net dollar value per AI-issued maintenance alert. The first deep dive in the Advanced KPI Series.

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April 2026 KPIs

45 Proposed KPIs for Maintenance Excellence

After reviewing hundreds of maintenance programs, I've distilled the metrics that actually matter into 45 KPIs. Here's the framework and why each one earns its place.

March 2026 IMPACT

The IMPACT System: Why Two Books Instead of One

The IMPACT System splits into a seven-step Process and a seven-discipline Method for a reason. One tells you what to do. The other tells you how to sustain it. Here's why that distinction matters and what each book covers.

February 2026 KPIs

725 KPIs Later: Building the Control Series

What started as a handful of Deep Dives turned into a 29-pack catalog covering every maintenance KPI worth measuring in Maximo. Here's how the KPI Control Series came together and where it's headed.

December 2024 Publication

Work Execution Management in Maximo Is Live

After two decades of configuring, teaching, and arguing about work order workflows, I put it all in one place. WEMiM is now available on Reliability Marketplace. PM programs, scheduling, crew management, and the metrics that actually move the needle.

October 2024 Conference

MaximoWorld 2024: What I Presented and What I Learned

Another year at MaximoWorld, another set of sessions on work execution and KPI-driven maintenance programs. The conversations in the hallways were as valuable as the sessions themselves. Here's what stood out.

August 2024 Company

Launching Brock Industries as an SDVOSB

Twenty years of Maximo work across government, defense, pharma, utilities, and transit — distilled into one consultancy. Why I built Brock Industries as a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business and what that means for clients.

June 2024 Opinion

Practitioner vs. Consultant: The Difference Matters

There's a gap between people who configure Maximo and people who've run maintenance operations with it. The advice you get depends on which side of that line your advisor sits on. Here's why I lead with the practitioner perspective.

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