Mainte Insights Maintenance engineering, incident analysis and reliability research. https://mainte.ai/insights 2026-10-29T00:00:00+10:00 Mainte Completion, verification, authorisation: three decisions before a machine goes back to work https://mainte.ai/insights/three-decisions-before-return-to-service 2026-10-29T00:00:00+10:00 2026-10-29T00:00:00+10:00 A job marked complete, a machine that has been tested, and a machine someone has decided can be used are three different states. What each involves, who owns it, and what regulators keep finding after maintenance. Downtime cost figures: which ones hold up https://mainte.ai/insights/what-breakdowns-cost 2026-10-29T00:00:00+10:00 2026-10-29T00:00:00+10:00 The breakdown and downtime figures that get quoted, traced to their source and graded, and a practical way to work out what an hour of downtime costs on your own plant. Lost maintenance history in four public inquiries https://mainte.ai/insights/when-the-history-is-missing 2026-10-29T00:00:00+10:00 2026-10-29T00:00:00+10:00 Buncefield, Texas City, Piper Alpha and Havelock North: what investigators found about faults that were never logged, handovers that dropped the detail, and history that was forgotten. What six incident reports say about defects that were already known https://mainte.ai/insights/defects-found-not-fixed 2026-10-29T00:00:00+10:00 2026-10-29T00:00:00+10:00 Australian regulator, court and coronial reports in which the defect had been noticed before anyone was hurt, and what each says about the steps between reporting a defect and dealing with it.