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AI-powered Bad Actor Review

Your worst assets, ranked and explained.

AI finds the patterns. An engineer decides what they mean.

Sample output

Five assets. Eighty percent of the loss.

Every plant has a short list like this. The work is proving which five.

Cost of unreliability

€882k concentrated in 10 assets

412 assets analysed · 12 months of work history · SAP PM export

Illustrative output
Pareto

Where the money goes

240k 180k 120k 60k 0 80% of total loss 81% P-101A C-202 V-300 HX-04 P-205 M-12 B-08 P-103 F-22 CV-15 Annual cost impact per asset (€) Cumulative share of loss
Critical High Watch Cumulative %

Five assets carry 81% of the loss. The rest is noise until those five are fixed.

Recurrence

The same failures, again

Bearing damage
18
Seal leakage
14
Coupling misalignment
9
Lubrication starvation
7
Instrument drift
5
Loss split

By failure category

Rotating / bearings 44% Sealing 23% Electrical 18% Instrumentation 15%
81% of the annual loss sits in 5 assets out of 412
4 of 6 events on the top actor share one failure mechanism
147 h production downtime tied to the number one asset
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Engineer-validated read 4 assets ready for full RCA · 3 PM intervals to revisit · 2 duty corrections proposed.
Figures are illustrative, not client data.
Inputs

Move beyond a flat ranking.

A Pareto is the start. What sits behind it is the job.

History

CMMS records

Work orders, failure codes, notifications, corrective hours, parts, interventions and maintenance history.

Impact

Cost and downtime

Maintenance spend, lost production, unavailable hours, event frequency and agreed consequence measures.

Context

Hierarchy and duty

Asset structure, operating service, redundancy, criticality, known modes, documents and engineer observations.

AI-connected evidence

Connect the ranking to the reasons behind it.

Each ranked asset linked to its events, losses, modes and causes.

AssetEventFailure modeDowntimeCostCauseAction
Rank#1 · Transfer pump P-204
Loss147 h downtime · 6 repeat events
Pattern4 events share bearing damage mechanism
ContextOff-design duty recurs during campaign change
PriorityDuty correction + lubrication control review
Workflow

From years of noisy history to a costed action portfolio.

AI does the sorting. Context decides what deserves action.

01

AI normalizes and ranks

Resolve asset identity, clean the measures and apply agreed ranking logic.

02

Cluster recurrence

Group repeat events, descriptions, symptoms and failure codes.

03

Add context

Relate top actors to duty, modes, history, documents and constraints.

04

Engineer review

Validate patterns, challenge false groupings and identify gaps.

05

Prioritize actions

Build a costed, owned plan aligned to value and feasibility.

Deliverables

A prioritized list with enough context to act.

Which assets matter, why they rank, what to do next.

  • Ranked Bad Actor list with agreed loss measures
  • Cost, downtime and recurrence Pareto views
  • Repeated failure-mode and event clusters
  • Context packs for priority assets
  • Costed action portfolio with owners and timing
  • Data-quality and uncertainty register
What remains connected

Today's ranking becomes tomorrow's reliability context.

Reviewed relationships and decisions stay in Factory Brain. Next time, you start from there.

  • Normalized asset identity
  • Loss and recurrence history
  • Reviewed event clusters
  • Known failure-mode patterns
  • Prioritized actions and owners
  • Assumptions and data gaps
Human validation

Rankings direct attention. Engineers decide what they mean.

AI surfaces patterns fast. Site context decides whether they are real.

R//Safe Never trains a public model Source-linked outputs Engineer-validated You keep the knowledge
Start with recurring loss

Find what is costing you most, in weeks, not months.

Bring your work history, your loss measures and your questions.

Start a Bad Actor Review