Where theory Meets reality

Maintenance work orders are the richest record of how your assets fail. We took 3,126 real work orders, classified them against a real FMEA, and found 337 the FMEA missed.

Last week's AI news was a procurement story. Asset owners should be reading their AI contracts. Six stories that move vendor risk from a slide to a register row.

AI compresses RCA from weeks to minutes. But if that speed up runs through a consumer chatbot, your sovereign data posture is already gone. Here is what sovereign RCA looks like in practice.

Last week in AI wasn't a capability week. It was a governance week — and every one of the six stories maps to a line on an asset owner's risk register.

How SAS-AM rebaselined 12,000 asset records across GeelongPort's estate in two months, standardising nomenclature and connecting condition data directly to Maximo via Unique Element Identifiers.

Seven AI developments from one week that directly affect asset owners. Why AI needs lifecycle management, risk governance, and performance monitoring — mapped to ISO 55001.

Victorian councils underspent $820M on capital works while renewal ratios hit a 9 year low. Download the free whitepaper analysis of all 79 councils.

How ML models refine FMEA probabilities using real operating data. A practical framework for integrating AI outputs into RCM decision logic.

Three questions dominated every conversation at Mainstream Summit Perth 2026. Here is what they reveal about where the industry actually stands on AI.

Criticality scoring is broken. Shane Scriven argues the better question is not which asset ranks highest, but how each asset is critical and to whom.

SAS-AM Managing Director Shane Scriven presented on edge federated ML at the Mainstream Summit 2026 in Perth, addressing data silos, latency, and privacy barriers in asset management.

A practical playbook for public sector asset managers: how to build evidence-based investment cases that survive treasury scrutiny, and what to do when the answer is still no.