Industrial Edge
Simon Murray - Your Maintenance Coach - 95% Uptime | Still Reactive -
A site can hit 98% uptime and still be reactive. How? Simon Murray, founder of Your Maintenance Coach, has spent more than 25 years in maintenance. Since 2012 he's been a consultant, coaching manufacturing sites from family businesses to global supermarket brands. In this episode, Joe and Simon look at why so many organisations get stuck in the reactive cycle. Some are even very good at being reactive, and that hides how much it costs them. Simon walks through his maintenance → reliability → asset management curve and how to tell where a site sits just by listening to its morning meeting. He also explains why combining the planner and supervisor roles doesn't work, why most sites don't need more tradespeople, and how AI is already changing RCM and CMMS analysis. Key takeaways Listen to the meetings, not just the KPIs. If the conversation is "what broke yesterday and whose fault was it," the site is still in the maintenance phase, whatever tools it has. High uptime can hide an expensive reactive model. Look for too many people on reactive work, too many spares and weak lubrication. The step change into reliability usually needs someone who owns it. For many sites that means a reliability engineer. Keep planning and supervising separate. The breakdown always wins, so planning never gets done. Match skills to tasks. Visual inspections and greasing don't need a qualified tradesperson. Build the ROI case on the cost of the current state. "We're busy" won't get you headcount. Most sites aren't ready for textbook best practice. Get lubrication and condition monitoring right before a full PM review. AI is already here. It's strongest at first drafts and at connecting messy CMMS data. People still need to verify the output. Connect with Simon LinkedIn: Simon Murray -https://www.linkedin.com/in/yourmaintenancecoach/ Website: Your Maintenance Coach - https://yourmaintenancecoach.com Connect with Industrial Edge https://open.spotify.com/show/4zruZV0wwTTCupDgXlvO9B
