MAINTENANCE & RELIABILITY ENGINEERING — REPORT TO NZ HEAVY INDUSTRY

Every failure has a root cause.

ReEngineering finds it, fixes it, and trains your people so it stays fixed. Maintenance and reliability engineering for heavy industry, from a Principal Engineer with twenty years on operating plant.

Experience
20+ yrs
Background
O&G · Mining · Power

DOC REENG-WEB-001 REV C AUG 2026 ISSUED FOR REVIEW

Unplanned downtime never books itself into the budget.

The pump that fails every few months. The PM schedule nobody trusts. The 2am breakdown that gets patched and never explained. Reliability problems have findable causes.

Start with the symptom.

You don't need to arrive knowing which method you need. Working that out is the first step.

The same failure keeps coming back.

A structured root cause analysis finds why it recurs, not just what broke this time, and closes it out permanently.

RCA FACILITATION · FAULT TREE · EVENT TREE

We maintain everything, and still break down.

Most PM programmes accumulate tasks that were never justified. A review rebuilds the programme around what actually prevents failure.

PMO · RCM

We don't know which assets actually matter.

Criticality analysis ranks your equipment by real consequence of failure, so spend and attention go where the risk is.

ASSET CRITICALITY · FMECA · RISK ASSESSMENT

Something went wrong. It needs investigating properly.

Independent, methodical incident investigation that stands up to scrutiny — regulators, insurers, boards.

ICAM INVESTIGATION

Our people need to be able to do this themselves.

Training in reliability methods from someone who has run them on operating plant, not read about them.

TRAINING

LIKELIHOOD → CONSEQUENCE →
Figure 2 — Criticality: most assets don't matter equally. Find the ones that do.

How an engagement runs.

  1. Assess

    Specialist assessment of your systems and processes. Where the losses are, what the data says, what it doesn’t.

  2. Analyse

    The right method for the problem — RCA, FMECA, criticality, reliability analysis — facilitated with your people in the room.

  3. Recommend

    Findings ranked by risk and cost, with an implementation path. No hundred-page report that nobody actions.

  4. Embed

    Your team trained to run the methods themselves, so the capability stays when the engagement ends.

CONDITION TIME P F P–F INTERVAL
Figure 1 — The P–F interval: the window where inspection catches failure before it costs you.

Where this has worked.

Sample engagement profiles — to be replaced with project histories before launch

F-01
SECTOR
Geothermal — steamfield
ISSUE
Recurring mechanical seal failure
APPROACH
RCA traced repeat seal failures to an operating-envelope excursion no one was trending. Corrected the control philosophy; failures eliminated.
RESULT
−340 hrs unplanned outage / yr
F-02
SECTOR
Mining — fixed plant
ISSUE
PM programme review
APPROACH
PMO review of a conveyor and crushing circuit found a third of PM tasks added no risk reduction. Rebuilt the programme around dominant failure modes.
RESULT
−30% PM labour hours
F-03
SECTOR
Power generation
ISSUE
Asset criticality baseline
APPROACH
Criticality analysis across a generation asset base gave the first defensible ranking of spares holding and inspection priority.
RESULT
1,200 assets ranked

Sectors

  • OIL & GAS
  • MINING
  • POWER GENERATION
  • GEOTHERMAL
  • PULP & PAPER
  • FOOD & DAIRY PROCESSING
  • PORTS & BULK HANDLING

Kate Williamson

Principal Engineer

Portrait — to supply

Twenty years in maintenance and reliability across oil & gas, mining and power generation, in multiple regions. Passionate about continuous improvement in asset management: logical problem solving, data-driven decisions, less waste.

You deal directly with the engineer doing the work. No bench, no hand-offs.

M.Eng
Maintenance & Reliability Engineering — Monash University
PG Cert
Connected Environments
PG Cert
Digital Economy

Training.

Maintenance and reliability methods taught by someone who has facilitated them on operating plant — delivered on site, scoped to your team and your equipment. Course details on request.

REGISTER INTEREST

Tell us what keeps failing.

A short conversation is usually enough to work out whether this is a reliability problem worth chasing, and which method fits.

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