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.
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.
Every Form Maintenance Knowledge Deserves to Take
Authoritative Works
Technical reference books, maintenance field handbooks, definitive guides
Scholarship
Journal articles, white papers, technical papers, conference proceedings
Case Record
Turnaround retrospectives, cost-of-downtime studies, benchmarking reports
Instruction
Certification courses, structured workbooks, assessment frameworks
Field Reference
Checklists, PM task libraries, spare parts and inventory guides
Institutional Memory
Recorded interviews, shutdown debriefs, documented planner testimony
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.
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 PublishingA Single Manuscript, Extended Into a Full Curriculum
The Book
Establishes the method
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.
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
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
Read the Work
Complete the title
Take the Course
Undertake training
Get Assessed
Pass certification
Be Credentialed
Professional record
A distinction reflected on your professional record and on your organization's competency ledger.
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.
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.