Built by practitioners. For practitioners.
Maintenance Untangled started as a podcast. It's grown into an academy, a resource library, a set of tools, and a consulting practice — all built around the same idea: maintenance is a discipline, and it deserves better material.
The mission
Untangle maintenance. Cut through the jargon, the frameworks that never survive a shift change, and the KPIs nobody reads. Give practitioners the tools and language to lead better teams and run better assets.
Asset Optimisation Maintenance Coaching
Derick Martins
As a newly qualified Mechanical Engineer, Derick started his career as a Mechanical Supervisor and learned the hard way what makes maintenance teams succeed — and what burns them out. Over 25 years across two continents he refined the habits, rituals and leadership behaviours that create stable plant performance without sacrificing people’s lives outside work.
Through Asset Optimisation, he coaches maintenance professionals to reclaim their time, lead with balance, and build teams that last. His focus is practical: better workflows, healthier cultures, and families that get their people back.
Johnstone Business Intelligence
Ricky Johnstone
For over a decade, Ricky Johnstone has helped organisations improve performance by bringing together people, processes, systems and information in ways that support better decision-making and more effective operations.
Johnstone Business Intelligence was founded after seeing the same challenge across industries. Businesses often had capable people, established processes, multiple systems and plenty of information, but these elements weren't always working together. Without a shared understanding, decision-making became harder and opportunities for improvement were missed.
We help businesses align people, processes, systems and data so teams can work from the same understanding, make better decisions and move in the same direction.
How we work
- ▸ Every episode features a working practitioner.
- ▸ Every framework has been tested on a real site.
- ▸ Consulting funds the content development.