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Reliability Intelligence

Downtime, costed and ranked.

Your stoppage records become a costed, validated ledger — and every improvement action is held to a measured result.

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Today

Downtime is recorded everywhere and trusted nowhere.

  • Three systems, three different downtime totals
  • Cause codes applied after the shift, from memory
  • Repeat failures with no owner for the underlying cause
  • Completed actions with no evidence they changed anything

With VMatrix

One agreed number, one ranked priority list.

  • A single downtime and exposure figure operations and finance both accept
  • Recurring causes ranked by annual cost, not frequency
  • Improvement effort concentrated where the loss actually sits
  • Validated value reported against the original baseline
  • A defensible case for the next reliability investment

For: maintenance and reliability leaders, plant managers, operations directors and the finance partners who approve their budgets.

The interface your team works in.

Every figure shows its source and its formula. Illustrative demonstration data.

Operational event ledger

Every event reconciled, costed and traceable to its source record.

Example operational data.

Example downtime events with asset, cause, duration, lost units, financial exposure and validation status.
EventAssetConfirmed causeMinutesExposureStatus
EV-4821Line 2 — FillerCapper jam, worn star wheel84$18,900Validated
EV-4818Line 2 — LabellerLabel web splice failure46$10,350Validated
EV-4809Line 1 — PalletiserSensor fault, layer detect121$21,780Awaiting review
EV-4802Utilities — Chiller 3High head pressure trip38$7,524Corrected
EV-4795Line 2 — FillerCapper jam, worn star wheel67$15,075Validated

Action register with validated value

Owners, dates and the measured result of each action.

Example operational data.

Example action register with owner, due date, projected value and validated value.
ActionOwnerDueProjectedValidated
Replace star wheel and add wear inspection to PMValidatedReliability lead28 Mar$168,400$141,200
Re-specify layer-detect sensor and mountingIn progressMaintenance planner11 Apr$121,300Pending
Change label splice procedure and retrain crewsValidatedProduction supervisor04 Apr$98,750$62,400

The financial model, in full

No proprietary black box. Every number on every screen resolves to one of these calculations and back to a source record.

Lost production units
downtime minutes ÷ 60 × demonstrated hourly rate

Demonstrated rate is taken from your own best sustained output, not a design figure.

Financial exposure
lost units × contribution margin per unit

Contribution margin is supplied and approved by your finance team.

Recurring cause exposure
Σ exposure of all events sharing a confirmed cause

Only causes confirmed by your team are aggregated.

Validated value
(baseline period exposure − post-action period exposure) for the same cause

Compared over equivalent run hours, reported before and after.

Eight capabilities, one chain of evidence.

  1. 01

    Trusted event ledger

    Reconciles stop logs, work orders and production records into one operational event history.

  2. 02

    Financial exposure

    Converts lost production minutes into money using a rate your finance team approves.

  3. 03

    Cause and asset ranking

    Aggregates exposure by asset, event type and recurring cause across the period.

  4. 04

    Connected information

    Links maintenance history, production context and frontline notes to each event.

  5. 05

    Human validation

    Operators and planners confirm or correct the cause; every change is logged with its author.

  6. 06

    Traceable recommendations

    Each recommendation opens back to the evidence and the calculation behind it.

  7. 07

    Accountable action register

    Owners, due dates, status and projected value for every committed action.

  8. 08

    Validated value tracking

    Compares post-action exposure with baseline over equivalent run hours.

What we need from you

Everything below already exists at most sites. New instrumentation is a later decision.

  • Downtime, stoppage or event records — 12 months preferred
  • Work orders and maintenance history
  • Production output or run hours for the same period
  • Asset register or equipment hierarchy
  • Contribution margin or standard cost per unit, approved by finance

Scheduled extracts (CSV or Excel) or an approved read-only connection. A template and field guide are on the demonstration page.

How implementation works

  1. 01

    Week 1 — data mapping, extract review and asset hierarchy agreement

  2. 02

    Week 2–3 — baseline construction and reconciliation against your existing reporting

  3. 03

    Week 3 — financial model agreed with finance

  4. 04

    Week 4–5 — workspace configuration for your assets, roles and shifts

  5. 05

    Week 6 — team validation of causes, rankings and recommendations

  6. 06

    Week 7–8 — training, go-live and first executive value review

Timeline and investment

Fixed scope, defined outcome.

Not yet certain reliability is your largest exposure? Start with the 10-day diagnostic — its fee is credited toward the deployment. Contact us for cost.

Focused Intelligence Deployment

Sites with a defined operational problem that need a configured, working intelligence system in production use.

Timeline
Normally 6–8 weeks
Cost
Fixed fee, quoted after scoping

We map your data, establish a baseline, configure the intelligence workspace your teams will use daily, and validate the value it produces.

What you receive

  • Data mapping across the source systems in scope
  • Verified operational baseline for the agreed period
  • Configured intelligence workspace for your roles and assets
  • Financial model connecting operational events to cost
  • User validation workflow so your team confirms or corrects causes
  • Action register with owners, due dates and outcome tracking
  • Role-based training and adoption support
  • Executive findings and value report at go-live

What we need from you

  • A named site owner and a data contact
  • Scheduled extracts or an approved read-only connection to source systems
  • Two to four hours per week from operating personnel during configuration

How we judge success

  • The workspace is in weekly operational use by the intended roles
  • Losses and their financial exposure are quantified and ranked
  • Actions are recorded, owned and tracked against measured outcomes
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