How Reporting is so important and How its Enabled us to Build a Better Business

Send us Fan Mail A 25-year engineering skills gap doesn’t get fixed with slogans, and it definitely doesn’t get fixed by buying shiny new tech while the basics fall apart. We’re joined by Wayne Stannett, founder of Regit in Norfolk, to talk honestly about what it takes to rebuild vocational engineering training that produces people you can trust on real plant, not just people who can pass an exam. Wayne walks us through how Regit was born out of the legacy of REAGIT, how it grew from a bold ...

Send us Fan Mail If you’ve ever thought, “We’ve got condition monitoring, we’ve got a CMMS, so why are we still firefighting?”, you’re not alone and you’re not imagining it. We talk about the uncomfortable gap between doing “the right activities” and actually getting reliability results, and why so many plants stay trapped in reactive maintenance even when the data is screaming for change. We break down why benchmarking is the starting line. Until you can compare your current maintenance pra...

Send us Fan Mail Breakdown culture is expensive, exhausting, and strangely normal in a lot of factories. We wanted a straight-talking conversation about what actually shifts the dial, so we sat down with Dan Bridges to trace his reliability journey through soft drinks manufacturing and the hard lessons that come with it. If you’ve ever watched a team do “regimented” maintenance only to see the same faults return, you’ll recognise the trap: activity without value, OEM checklists without contex...

Send us Fan Mail AI is moving at breakneck speed, but the plant floor still runs on trust, habit, and hard-earned routines. We sit down with Vinit to unpack the real challenge behind “digital transformation” in reliability: designing tools that work for an experienced workforce that values buttons, PDFs, and proven processes, while also meeting the expectations of early-career engineers who want fast answers, mobile access, and connected systems. We get practical about what actually closes t...

Send us Fan Mail Your CMMS probably knows more about your plant than any one person does, but most of that information is buried in reports, menus and half-completed work orders. While we were at Accelerate 2026, we sat down with Jay Hack to look at four practical ways generative AI is being used to make maintenance and reliability work easier, faster and more accurate. The first was the ability to simply talk to your data inside eMaint. Instead of needing to know how to build reports or se...