Bite-sized lessons, one break at a time.Whether you're on a coffee break or between jobs, Maintenance Break is your quick fix of practical insights into asset management, maintenance strategies, and reliability. Hosts Pete and Drew deliver jargon-free tips, real-world examples, and a dash of good humour—all in under 10 minutes.Perfect for maintenance professionals, engineers, supervisors and anyone looking to make sense of the systems that keep everything running.New episodes every fortnight.Because sometimes, all you need is a maintenance break.Visit us at www.jebsadvisory.com
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Signup to Generate a PitchBite-sized lessons, one break at a time. Whether you're on a coffee break or between jobs, Maintenance Break is your quick fix of practical insights into asset management, maintenance strategies, and reliability. Hosts Pete and Drew deliver jargon-free tips, real-world examples, and a dash of good humour, all in under 10 minutes.
Recent episodes include "Still Standing Isn't Integrity: Why Structures Belong in the Plan" (12 October 2026, 8 minutes), "Three Flags, No Fix: The RCA That Missed a Second Failure" (28 September 2026, 8 minutes), and "Design for Maintainability: Ten Centimeters to the Left" (31 August 2026, 7 minutes).
Maintenance Break publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 7 minutes across 32 episodes.
Booking probability for Maintenance Break is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Maintenance Break requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Maintenance Break's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for Maintenance Break are Facilities Management. Maintenance Break has a business audience.
Maintenance Break is a business show with 32 episodes published.
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Fixed plant flaking with corrosion, and the site says it's meeting the intent of maintaining integrity. It's still standing, so it's fine. Except standing isn't the required outcome. Pete and Drewbreak down what...
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A 785C A-frame bearing failed. Two days of unscheduled downtime, a line bore, a proper RCA. The RCA was genuinely good. The site found the bearing hadbeen installed wrong six months earlier, rewrote the install...
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A grease point on a conveyor drive, tucked behind the guarding. To reach it: isolate the whole conveyor, pull the guard, grease it, put the guard back, re-verify. Half an hour, gone, every single week - for the life of...
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Pete ran the same fleet through two completely different ways to work out how many workshop bays a site actually needs for their mobile fleet and landed on the same number both times. The catch: one method took weeks...
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Monday morning. The electric-drive haul fleet's landed, the crew's through handover, and it's time for the first scheduled service. The planner opens the CMMS - and there's nothing in the system to plan against. The...
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<p>The JHA was done. The OEM procedure was on the table. The crew were trying to do the right thing. And a worker still ended up on the ground with a serious leg laceration. In this episode, Pete and Drew break down...
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<p>Is your plant running because it's reliable — or because your team is holding it together with workarounds and tribal knowledge? In this episode, Pete and Drew tackle one of the most common misconceptions in...
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<p>You send a gearbox out the gate and it vanishes. No status update, no confirmed lead time, and an invoice that lands like a lead balloon much larger than you expect. Sound familiar? In this episode, Pete and Drew...
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<p>Nobody questions the jump-start ute — until someone does. In this episode, Pete and Drew break down a chronic breakdown event where a dedicated vehicle and fitter were burning up to eight hours a shift just getting...
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<p>Four metres. That's not a stumble — that's a life-changer. In this episode, Pete and Drew break down Safety Alert SA26-02 out of the Hunter Valley, where a worker fell from a Hitachi EX5600 excavator after a...
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<p>For fifteen years, a primary production rail crane was the site’s biggest headache. Availability sat at just 65%, improvement projects kept failing, and the team had started accepting the problem as “just the way it...
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<p>When heavy metal meets gravity, the results are life-changing. In this episode, we dissect the Resources Queensland safety notice regarding a 5-piece wheel assembly incident that injured a tyre fitter.</p><p>...
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<p>Is your maintenance team stuck in a "replace and restock" cycle that never actually stops the breakdowns?</p><p>In this episode of Maintenance Break, Pete and Drew tear down a real-world case study: a Hitachi EH3500...
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<p>Pete welcomes Drew from JEBS Advisory as his new co-host and to discuss the JEBS PCR Triad: a framework for balancing Performance, Cost, and Risk in heavy industry. </p><p>Learn why every maintenance task must...
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<p>Is your PM schedule full of "task clutter" that adds cost but no reliability? In this episode of Maintenance Break, Pete and Sarah dive into the critical filter needed to make sure your team's wrench time is spent...
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<p>We've all been there: a fantastic Root Cause Analysis with a brilliant list of actions... that somehow vanish. In this episode of Maintenance Break, Pete and Sarah dive into the accountability problem that kills...
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<p>Everyone talks about "proactive maintenance," but what actually makes it stick? In this episode, Pete and Sarah dive into the real engine of reliability: operational discipline and culture.</p><p><br></p><p>We break...
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<p>Even the best maintenance programs face failures — what matters is how you respond. In this episode, Pete and Sarah explore how to uncover the real reasons behind breakdowns using tools like the 5-Whys. They unpack...
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<p>Reliability doesn’t just happen — it’s powered by effective work management. From planning and scheduling to execution and analysis, Pete and Sarah unpack the full life cycle of maintenance work and why each step...
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<p>Strong reliability starts with smart strategies. In this episode, Pete and Sarah break down the essentials: tailoring asset strategies to context, adopting an RCM mindset, and building a proactive maintenance...
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