For plant managers, operations leaders and owners

Maintenance that protects what matters most.

Preventive maintenance that doesn't prevent. Breakdowns that come back. Outages that run past the window. KANE finds out why, ranks what to fix first, and leaves your team a plan it can run.

The cost shows up as unplanned downtime, overtime, expedited parts and lost production.

19 years on the plant floor
560 MWMaintenance Manager at a combined-cycle power plant
Union crewsand specialty contractors, on turnarounds and daily work
4 industriesEnergy, dairy, chemical and industrial automation

Career includes NRG Energy · Danone · Interplastic Corporation · Wonderware

Five assessments, one sequence

Each one stands alone and feeds the next. Most clients start with the criticality ranking, because every other decision depends on knowing what matters. If an outage is already 8–16 weeks away, start with the readiness review.

01

Asset Criticality Ranking

When everything is priority one, and PM effort is spread thin.

  • Facilitated scoring with operations, maintenance and engineering
  • Criticality register ranked A, B and C, with rationale
  • PM coverage gap map and executive summary
1–2 weeksSTART HEREDetails →
02

Maintenance Effectiveness Audit

When the crew is busy but breakdowns keep happening.

  • Backlog health, PM compliance and failures despite PM
  • Schedule compliance, planned work and job plan quality
  • KPI baseline, ranked fix list and 90-day action plan
03

Asset Data and Documentation Review

When technicians can't find the right drawing or manual.

  • Document authority map for one critical system
  • Asset hierarchy and ID check across CMMS, drawings and SCADA
  • Time-to-find test and a governed knowledge roadmap
04

Industrial AI Readiness and Adoption

When AI is being pitched and nobody has a plan for the crew.

  • Readiness across data, skills and leadership alignment
  • Two to three use cases with a human approval step
  • Pilot design, adoption plan and training outline
3–4 weeksDetails →
05

Outage / Turnaround Readiness Review

8–16 weeks before an outage, while gaps can still be closed.

  • Scope freeze and critical-path job readiness
  • Parts, BOM and contractor readiness
  • Risk register, readiness scorecard and fix list

Scope is defined by what drives the work: asset count, systems reviewed, staff interviewed or outage work orders.

The fee is fixed and confirmed in writing after a short scoping call, before any work starts.

What you get from every engagement

A ranked list of what to fix first

Each finding tied to the risk or cost it carries, so the first dollars go where they matter.

A 90-day plan with owners

Written for the crew and supervisors you have, not an ideal team you don't.

Working files your team keeps

Registers, scorecards and templates you can update yourselves after I leave.

A check-in 30 days later

A short review of progress against the plan, included in the fee.

Start with a 30-minute call

Tell me about your plant, the assets that worry you and what you have tried. You will leave the call knowing which assessment fits, or whether you need one at all.