MAINTENANCE & RELIABILITY ENGINEERING — REPORT TO NZ HEAVY INDUSTRY

Every failure has a root cause. Often more than one.

ReEngineering finds them, sets out exactly what it will take to fix them, and coaches your people so the fix sticks. 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 problem.

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 sets out exactly what it will take to close it out for good.

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

The squeaky wheel gets all the attention.

The loudest equipment isn't always the highest risk. Criticality analysis ranks assets by real consequence of failure, so spend and attention shift from the noisiest gear to the riskiest.

ASSET CRITICALITY · FMECA · RISK ASSESSMENT

Our maintenance system isn't working for us.

Independent help working out which CMMS or maintenance tech actually suits your business — then support through set-up and implementation so it gets used.

CMMS SELECTION · TECH EVALUATION · IMPLEMENTATION

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.

Bespoke e-learning built around your site, your equipment and your systems — most often CMMS usage — so the capability lives in your team, not in a consultant.

BESPOKE E-LEARNING · COACHING

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 coached to run the methods — and the systems behind them — so the capability stays when the engagement ends.

Not every engagement runs all four steps — sometimes it's one piece of the puzzle. Whatever the scope, the work runs on your systems and your processes, and it's set up so your people can carry it on without a consultant in the room.

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. Recommended a control-philosophy change; failures eliminated once implemented.
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
  • 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.

The engineer you talk to on day one is the engineer on your plant — one person, start to finish.

M.Eng
Maintenance & Reliability Engineering — Monash University
PG Cert
Connected Environments
PG Cert
Digital Economy
B.Eng / B.BusMan
Mechanical Engineering & Business Management — University of Queensland

Training.

Mostly bespoke e-learning: modules built around your site, your equipment and your systems — usually CMMS usage, so the data you run the plant on is good enough to trust. An in-person Practical Reliability Engineering course is in development.

REGISTER INTEREST

Tell me what's not working.

A breakdown that keeps coming back, a maintenance system nobody trusts, or just something you know could run better. A short conversation is usually enough to work out what's going on and which approach fits.

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