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Ideas, practical references and learning experiences for the people responsible for reliability, maintenance and industrial operations.
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From understanding the evidence to deciding what happens next.
14 public resources. Articles to challenge your thinking, a manual to structure the work, and clear paths to explore the product or learn with your team.
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A recommendation needs a decision.
Begin with the distinction that shapes the rest of the library: a proposed next action still needs evidence and a person with authority.
Article · Decisions & governance
Recommend Is Not Authorize
Explore how a Decision Case keeps a proposal, its evidence and the named human decision together.
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14 resources available
Guide
Decisions & governance
Sync Field Manual v0
A practical reference for the Decision Case: from the operating question to evidence, human approval, verification and learning.
8 chapters · Online guide
· Orville Davis
Interactive demo
Decisions & governance
Explore the public Decision Case demo
See the public experience before discussing team access. Start with a question and explore how evidence and a proposed next action fit together.
Browser-based · Public demo
Article
Decisions & governance
Alert Is Not Decision
Clearing an alert queue, muting a channel, or auto-closing a ticket must not be read as authorization, verification of outcome, work-order execution, or plant control.
Online article
· Orville Davis
Article
Decisions & governance
Recommend Is Not Authorize
A drafted next action is a proposal. The signed-in Decision Case keeps the human decision separate, and evidence is required before that proposal is treated as a decision.
Online article
· Orville Davis
Article
Reliability & maintenance
Evidence Lineage Is Not Optional
A haul-fleet planner ranks a truck for deferral. A superintendent gets a pump family tagged “bad actor.” A reliability engineer is handed PM intervals the model wants to stretch. The dashboard is confident. The record behind it is not.
Online article
Article
Reliability & maintenance
FRACAS Is Not a Decision System
Closing the loop from failure code to approved action — why codes alone do not change reliability outcomes.
Online article
Article
Reliability & maintenance
Why CMMS Alone Is Failing in 2026
Modern maintenance demands have outpaced what traditional CMMS platforms can deliver. Organizations are adding a governed intelligence layer — not replacing the system of record.
Online article
Article
Business case
The Economics of Autonomous Maintenance
How maintenance economics should be framed when evidence, approval, and verification come before any claim of savings.
Online article
Article
Decisions & governance
Governance in Industrial AI: Human Oversight at Scale
How enterprises can keep operational accountability when a model can draft a recommendation faster than a human can review it.
Online article
Training
Reliability & maintenance
Reliability for Planners and Supervisors
A one-day working session for maintenance planners and supervisors: rank bad actors from your own work orders, clean up failure data, and document decisions. Vendor-neutral, no software required.
Working session · 1 day
Training
Reliability & maintenance
Reliability for Superintendents and Managers
A short leadership briefing for maintenance and operations superintendents and managers: how to read reliability numbers, what to approve or challenge, and how to run a monthly review. Vendor-neutral.
Leadership briefing · 2–3 hours
Training
Reliability & maintenance
Reliability for Technicians and Operators
A half-day crew session for technicians and operators on how the work you do every day creates reliability: job closeouts, early warning, doing the task right, and raising problems. No blame, safety first.
Crew session · half-day
Technical resource
Implementation & security
Architecture overview
Review the platform architecture and prepare questions about your workflows, data sources and connection requirements.
Public overview
Technical resource
Implementation & security
Security overview
Use the public security overview to start a review of the access, data handling and deployment requirements for your customer scope.
Public overview
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Use the online Field Manual to structure a Decision Case, or review the training agendas for team exercises. Standalone downloadable templates and public event listings are not published here yet.
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