Culture & Leadership12 min

Who Owns the Alert? Roles for Reliability, Operations, and Planning

Predictive programs usually fail at the handoff, not the model. Here is an explicit ownership model for alert triage, disposition, scheduling, and verification that keeps alerts from expiring.

Monitory team · November 13, 2026
Maintenance Strategy13 min

When to Do Maintenance Work: The P-F Curve and the Cost of Work Balance

How to decide when maintenance work should happen: read the P-F curve, pick the right trigger for each failure mode, and balance reactive and proactive cost of work on your own assets.

Monitory team · October 27, 2026
Sustainability12 min

How to Add Asset Condition to an Industrial Energy Review

A practitioner workflow for pairing vibration, temperature, and load data with utility meters and maintenance history so energy findings survive technical review.

Monitory team · October 19, 2026
Operational Excellence13 min

Planning Spare Parts Around Condition Signals and Lead Times

A working framework for deciding when a condition alert should change a purchase order: signal confidence, asset criticality, supplier lead time, and work-order readiness.

Monitory team · October 12, 2026
Maintenance Strategy14 min

A Risk-Based Framework for Prioritizing Maintenance Backlogs

Stop working the backlog first-in-first-out. Score every item on asset criticality, failure consequence, signal confidence, work readiness, and operating constraints.

Monitory team · October 6, 2026
Maintenance Strategy14 min

From Pilot Alerts to Planned Work: Why PdM Demos Stall Before Deployment

Most predictive maintenance pilots prove detection and fail at the planner handoff. Use a production-readiness checklist and go/no-go rubric to turn alerts into scheduled, verified work.

Monitory team · September 30, 2026
Condition Monitoring13 min

Sensor Fusion That Works: Fusing Vibration, Thermal, Acoustic, and Oil Data

A practitioner's method for combining vibration, thermal, ultrasound, oil analysis, and operator rounds around named failure modes, plus planner rules for conflicting evidence.

Monitory team · September 28, 2026
Operational Excellence12 min

How to Set an OEE Target From Your Own Operating Baseline

A step-by-step method for setting an OEE target from your plant's documented availability, performance, quality, and constraint data, using external benchmarks as context only.

Monitory team · September 24, 2026