Maintenance Break

Bite-sized lessons, one break at a time.Whether you're on a coffee break or between jobs, Maintenance Break is your quick fix of practical insights into asset management, maintenance strategies, and reliability. Hosts Pete and Drew deliver jargon-free tips, real-world examples, and a dash of good humour—all in under 10 minutes.Perfect for maintenance professionals, engineers, supervisors and anyone looking to make sense of the systems that keep everything running.New episodes every fortnight.Because sometimes, all you need is a maintenance break.Visit us at www.jebsadvisory.com

Maintenance Break is a business podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 28 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Workshop Capacity: Same Bay Count, a Fraction of the Work

  Aug 17, 20269 min

  Pete ran the same fleet through two completely different ways to work out how many workshop bays a site actually needs for their mobile fleet and landed on the same number both times. The catch: one method took weeks longer than the other, and it wasn't the accuracy that changed. Pete and Drew break down zero-base (build it up task by taskfrom the full maintenance strategy) versus top-down (start from fleet availability and sort the downtime you already have). Zero-base gets you there, but its assumptions are buried across a hundred task lines, easy to quietly inflate the numbers to match what you need. Top-down is faster because the total maintenance requirements are already fact, and it comes down to a hand full of visible decisions on where maintenance on an asset happens. Break Tip If you've got an expanding fleet and need to calculate potential new workshop requirements, use a top-down approach and keep it simple by identifying the locations your maintenance happens. Work with the team to define what happens at each location and make reasonable assumptions on the allocation to each space.

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  Systems Readiness: A Populated-But-Wrong System Tells You a Lie With Confidence

  Jul 20, 20268 min

  Monday morning. The electric-drive haul fleet's landed, the crew's through handover, and it's time for the first scheduled service. The planner opens the CMMS - and there's nothing in the system to plan against. The functional location doesn't even exist yet. In this episode, Pete and Drew go deep on the Systems lens of Operational Readiness. Running it through the JEBS PCR Triad, they break down why a populated-but-wrong bill of materials is worse than an empty one; why materials readiness has to be a procurement-phase conversation, not a first-service surprise, when a single component's lead time can blow out to a quarter; and why the reporting and KPI baseline you set in an asset's first year is the one you're stuck comparing the next ten against. Break Tip: You don't need a new asset to run this one. Tomorrow morning, pick one asset on your site and look at the documented procedures and bill of materials for its next service or component change. Walk it with the team to confirm the procedure is correct and every part is identified and required for the job. If it isn't, that's your gap to close. And you don't need to tackle every asset at once - focus on the critical equipment giving you the most grief first, and work down the list.

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  When the Plan Unravels: Swinging Loads & Missing Procedures

  May 25, 20268 minS0

  <p>The JHA was done. The OEM procedure was on the table. The crew were trying to do the right thing. And a worker still ended up on the ground with a serious leg laceration. In this episode, Pete and Drew break down Safety Alert SA24-04 from NSW Resources Regulator — a haul truck rear strut replacement that went wrong the moment the plan changed and there was no documented fallback to catch the team.</p><p>Running the incident through the JEBS PCR Triad, Pete and Drew unpack how a fit-for-purpose lifting jig sitting unused on site exposed a cr...

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  Still Running… But is it reliable?

  May 11, 20269 minS0

  <p>Is your plant running because it's reliable — or because your team is holding it together with workarounds and tribal knowledge? In this episode, Pete and Drew tackle one of the most common misconceptions in maintenance: that reliability just means fewer breakdowns. They break down what reliability actually is, why availability and maintenance aren't the same thing, and how to tell the difference between a healthy asset and one that's surviving on heroics. </p><p>Break Tip: Walk the plant and identify the top three assets your team always complains about.  Against each one ask yourself this one question and docu...

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  No Visibility, No Control: Fixing the Off-Site Repair Process

  Apr 27, 20267 minS0

  <p>You send a gearbox out the gate and it vanishes. No status update, no confirmed lead time, and an invoice that lands like a lead balloon much larger than you expect. Sound familiar? In this episode, Pete and Drew shine a light on the "Off-Site Black Hole" — the fragmented repair process quietly leaking millions from maintenance budgets across the industry.</p><p>Running the problem through the JEBS PCR Triad, Pete and Drew break down how unknown rebuild lead times wreck your component replacement schedule, how poor scope management and ignored warranty claims mean many operations are paying twice fo...

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