Untangling maintenance one conversation at a time.
Practical maintenance, reliability, leadership and operational excellence insights from industry practitioners — not academics.
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About
Maintenance Untangled is run by two practitioners who have spent their careers on the tools, in the planning office and in front of the data.
Derick Martins came up as a Mechanical Supervisor and now coaches maintenance teams through Asset Optimisation — better workflows, healthier cultures and leaders who get their lives back.
Ricky Johnstone runs Johnstone Business Intelligence. For over a decade he has helped organisations improve performance by aligning people, processes, systems and data so teams can work from the same understanding, make better decisions and move in the same direction.
Together they cover the whole picture: the people and process side of maintenance, and the systems and data that prove it is working.
Resources
Calculators, interactive audits, checklists and process guides you can use on site today.
Calculators
Availability, OEE, MTBF, PM justification and reliability maths.
Interactive Audits
Work management maturity, shutdown readiness, RCM and CMMS health.
Checklists
Work request quality, master data sign-off and pre-start checks.
Annual Routine Planner
The 12-month rhythm of a maintenance department, mapped out.
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Community
Daily posts, episode highlights, discussion threads and short-form insights from the Maintenance Untangled team and community.