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Maintenance management and planning
Publishing Vertical -- Maintenance Management

Maintenance Is Not a Cost Center. It Is a Body of Knowledge That Deserves to Be Published

Reliability Eye is where maintenance leaders, planners, and consultants convert decades of shutdown experience, CMMS discipline, and shop-floor judgment into books, courses, and certifications-- built to outlast any one career.

10+
Sub-Disciplines
Planning to shutdown management
5
Certification Bodies
CMRP, Planning & Scheduling, TPM
15
Industries
Actively publishing and reading
100%
Author Rights
IP and royalty ownership retained
The Void This Fills

The Best Maintenance Knowledge Lives in a Planner's Head, Not on a Bookshelf

Every plant has one planner who can build a turnaround schedule from memory, one supervisor who knows exactly which spare to stock before the CMMS flags it, one engineer who has seen every failure mode on a specific pump twice. None of that is written down anywhere permanent.

It moves when they move. Reliability Eye exists to capture that judgment before it walks out the gate.

The Scope of the Vertical

Every Form Maintenance Knowledge Deserves to Take

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Authoritative Works

Technical reference books, maintenance field handbooks, definitive guides

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Scholarship

Journal articles, white papers, technical papers, conference proceedings

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Case Record

Turnaround retrospectives, cost-of-downtime studies, benchmarking reports

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Instruction

Certification courses, structured workbooks, assessment frameworks

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Field Reference

Checklists, PM task libraries, spare parts and inventory guides

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Institutional Memory

Recorded interviews, shutdown debriefs, documented planner testimony

Subject Matter Covered

The Full Discipline, Not a Fraction of It

This vertical covers maintenance management end to end, from how work gets planned to how an organization proves it was worth doing.

Planning & Scheduling

Work Order Management • Backlog Management • Weekly and Long-Range Scheduling • Resource Loading

CMMS & EAM Systems

CMMS Selection • Data Cleansing • Asset Hierarchy • CMMS Optimization • EAM Integration

Preventive & Predictive

PM Task Development • PM Compliance • Predictive Maintenance Design • Condition-Based Triggers

Shutdown & Turnaround

Turnaround Planning • Scope Control • Critical Path • Cost Control • Post-Turnaround Review

Spare Parts & Inventory

Criticality-Based Stocking • Inventory Optimization • Obsolescence • Vendor-Managed Inventory

Cost & Budget Management

Cost Benchmarking • Budget Planning • Cost of Unreliability • Total Cost of Ownership

Metrics & Benchmarking

Wrench Time • Schedule Compliance • PM Compliance • Maintenance Cost as % of RAV

Contractor Management

Contractor Qualification • Outsourced Governance • SLA Design • Multi-Contractor Coordination

Organization & Workforce

Organization Design • Skills Matrix • Craft Training • Multi-Skilling • Succession Planning

Lubrication & Field Practices

Lubrication Program • Precision Maintenance • Alignment & Balancing • Torque Management

Digital Transformation

Mobile CMMS • Digital Work Orders • IIoT Workflows • AI Decision Support • Paperless Docs

Leadership & Culture

Planning Culture • Change Management • Maintenance Leadership • Cross-Functional Alignment

One vertical. Every layer of how maintenance gets planned, executed, and proven. Nothing left uncovered.

Writing and authoring
For the Author

Your Turnaround Playbook Deserves Permanence, Not a Shared Drive

A career of planning shutdowns, running CMMS transformations, and rebuilding maintenance organizations merits publication, not an internal SharePoint folder. Reliability Eye provides editorial rigor, global distribution, and transparent terms-- built for practitioners whose authority comes from the field.

Begin Publishing

A Single Manuscript, Extended Into a Full Curriculum

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The Book

Establishes the method

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The Course

Installs it into workforce

Every title published in this vertical carries the capacity to become a certified course, built from the same authority, distributed to the same standard.

A Case in Point

One Planner's Method. A Standard Adopted Across an Entire Site

A veteran maintenance planner documented his approach to building turnaround schedules under compressed timelines across three major outages. What began as a single case record became a chapter in a definitive planning handbook, then a certification module now assigned to every incoming planner at his site--replacing eighteen months of informal mentoring with a structured four-week program of record.

Read by the People Who Keep the Plant Running

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Maintenance Managers
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Planners & Schedulers
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CMMS Administrators
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Reliability Professionals

Oil & Gas • Power • Cement • Steel • Chemical • Manufacturing • FMCG

This is a vertical written by those who have run the turnaround, for those who will run the next one.

One Discipline. Every Industry That Cannot Afford Downtime

Maintenance management principles do not change by industry. What changes is the asset, the risk, and the cost of getting it wrong.

From Reader to Certified Authority

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Read the Work

Complete the title

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Take the Course

Undertake training

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Get Assessed

Pass certification

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Be Credentialed

Professional record

A distinction reflected on your professional record and on your organization's competency ledger.

Professional network
The Fellowship

Stand Among the Discipline's Established Authorities

Publish alongside CMRP holders, certified planners and schedulers, and TPM specialists. Submit work for review by peers who have run the outage, not merely studied it.

Global Standing

Build your reputation among industry leaders

Invitations to Speak

Advisory opportunities and consulting

Recognition Among Peers

Stand with established authorities

Your Work. Your Name. Your Terms, Honored in Full

Full Authorship Credit

Your name, your work, permanent recognition

Transparent Commissions

Clear revenue structures, no hidden terms

Permanent IP Ownership

You retain intellectual property at every stage

Reliability Eye distributes and monetizes the work. It never claims it.

The Charge

A Discipline Built on Uptime Deserves a Record Built to the Same Standard

Your planning method, your turnaround playbook, your CMMS transformation story deserve more than a folder on a shared drive. They deserve a body of work, a credential, and a place in the discipline's permanent record.