Accendo Reliability

Why Technical Training Alone Does Not Create Effective General Inspection

The missing translation layer in Autonomous Maintenance is effective, hands-on application. Many organizations struggle with Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) because of the transition of equipment-care responsibilities between Maintenance (PM Pillar) and Operations (AM Pillar). One...

The Problem

The alarm goes off at 2 a.m. By the time the reliability engineer walks the floor three days later to ask what happened, the story has already been told a dozen times: in the break room, in the group chat, in the shift handover. Everyone agrees on what happened. Nobody was asked alone.

By the time the official interview happens, it’s ...

Technical professionals often believe that more information equals better decisions. This is seldom the case. More information usually equals more noise. Decision makers rarely struggle because they lack data. They struggle because the data from technical professionals is unfiltered, not prioritized, or disconnected from the decision they must make.

Your Value is R...

We have explored identifying risk by looking beyond individual failures to the conditions and assumptions that create them. The next step is understanding what kind of risk we are dealing with – because not all risks are the same, and they don’t all behave in the same way.

Risk is not just technical

When people think about risk in engineering, the focus is often ...

Your company does not owe you a career.

Your manager does not owe you a development plan. The sooner African engineers accept this, the faster they will start building something real.

I want to say something that might be uncomfortable to read.

Nobody is coming...