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Notes from the execution layer.
Thinking on how industrial work actually gets done, why it so often cannot be proven, and what changes when execution becomes evidence. Written by the people who build the platform and the people who deploy it.
Product
Inside the limits, and still going wrong
A condition monitoring question captures a number and a photograph. The platform trends it across the fleet, watches the rate of change, and raises an alert while the reading is still comfortably inside its limits.
4 September 2026 · 7 min read
Product
Inside the limits, and still going wrong
A condition monitoring question captures a number and a photograph. The platform trends it across the fleet, watches the rate of change, and raises an alert while the reading is still comfortably inside its limits.
4 September 2026 · 7 min read
Insight
Your CMMS is not the execution layer
Enterprise systems hold the asset record. Planning systems schedule the work. Neither of them sees the work being performed, and that gap is not a reporting problem to be fixed with another dashboard.
12 August 2026 · 8 min read
Insight
Chaos, constrained: why maintenance behaves like a complex system
Small deviations at the start of a shift produce very large differences by the end of it. You cannot remove that sensitivity, but you can bound it, the way aviation and surgical systems do.
29 July 2026 · 6 min read
Insight
Work deconstruction, not process abstraction
Most vendors digitise the description of the work. Taking the task apart at the machine produces something quite different, and it is why field adoption behaves the way it does.
15 July 2026 · 7 min read
Practice
Writing a procedure a technician will actually follow
One instruction per step, one action per instruction, and no word doing two jobs. What Simplified Technical English changes about maintenance documentation.
2 July 2026 · 5 min read
Practice
Zones, roles and the parallel service
Two trades on one machine at the same time is where servicing time is won or lost. How zone boundaries get drawn, and what happens to turnaround when they are drawn badly.
18 June 2026 · 6 min read
Product
Assurance at three altitudes
The same execution record answers a different question for a technician, a superintendent and a board. Capturing it once, at the point of work, is what makes all three possible.
21 May 2026 · 4 min read
Partners
What a Regional Operating Partner actually does
Not software resale. Partners own the client, the delivery and the support, and sell an outcome into markets where they already have credibility.
7 May 2026 · 6 min read
Partners
Deploying a new site in 48 hours
The target that shapes how the platform is built: a certified partner standing up a new site without EMI on the ground.
23 April 2026 · 5 min read
Insight
The missing link: sensory data and sensor data
Sites invest heavily in oil sampling, vibration analysis and sensor technology, then lose the observations of the people standing next to the machine. The two belong in one record.
1 October 2024 · 7 min read
Insight
Case study: what changed in six months
A mining client with a struggling mobile equipment department. No accountability, poor communication, no standard way of working, and morale to match. What ZoneMaintenance changed, and what the superintendent said afterwards.
24 July 2024 · 6 min read
Insight
Harnessing Digital Audits: A Companies Guide to Reducing Insurance Risks and Premiums
In today's ever-evolving business landscape, companies are increasingly recognizing the importance of compliance and assurance principles in maintaining a strong partnership with their insurance providers and key stakeholders.
6 March 2024 · 4 min read
Practice
Accountability Improves Reliability.
Six months ago, we introduced our ZoneMaintenance software to a new client in Central America.
28 April 2023 · 5 min read
Insight
Reliability Engineers - are they wasting their time?
Reliability Engineering – are they looking at the wrong data to define the next month’s repair strategy?
13 August 2021 · 4 min read
Insight
Availability Achieved or Availability Lost
Are we focusing on the wrong numbers?
6 July 2021 · 4 min read
Insight
The Missing Link
Combining onboard and sensory-based data to improve the overall understanding of asset condition
27 September 2019 · 5 min read
Practice
Going Mobile
How going mobile could save over 500 man-hours a year
8 August 2017 · 3 min read
Product
Integrating Visual Data with other sources
One of the biggest issues with asset management is the number of databases and systems required to keep on top of the health of your fleet.
3 May 2017 · 3 min read
Product
Impacts to the Service Process
When was the last time you looked into what’s happening on the floor in your workshop?
2 May 2017 · 2 min read
Practice
Is the supervisor actually on the job?
You expect supervisors to be out there: checking progress, safe work practice, quality of workmanship. Proving it is another matter entirely.
2 May 2017 · 4 min read
Product
CNC Lathe Receives an Upgrade
A local Tasmanian company has received great results recovering damaging ferrous particles from their CNC Lathe Cooling fluid.
31 August 2016 · 1 min read
Product
Gyro Crusher Gearbox Filtered by Magnom
A large ferroalloy smelter has introduced the Magnom Filtration System to a large gyro crusher gearbox lubrication circuit.
31 August 2016 · 2 min read
Product
Mobile Equipment Fuel Systems Not as Clean as You'd Expect
The Magnom Filtration System is the solution for an ongoing problem with the diesel fuel system of mobile machines.
31 August 2016 · 2 min read
Practice
China Experience
In 2014-15, EMI was commissioned to review the maintenance operations and implement ZoneMaintenance at a large underground gold mine in central China.
30 August 2016 · 3 min read
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