Who owns reliability, who decides, and where responsibility stops without anyone noticing.
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Your maintenance system already exists.
- A short form, then a 30 minute call with the consultant who would run the analysis.
- No presentation, no sales deck.
Over 20 years of progressive experience in manufacturing operations
About
Most plants do not have
a maintenance problem. They have a system that no longer matches how they operate.
Equipment fails in the same places every quarter. The PM schedule exists on paper and is completed on paper. Work orders describe what was done in a way that no one can analyze six months later. Spare parts are either missing or sitting in the warehouse in quantities nobody ordered on purpose. Each department has a reasonable explanation, and none of them is wrong.
This is not a discipline problem. It is a structural one. The system was built for a plant that has since changed its product mix, its headcount, and its equipment, and nobody rebuilt it.
Six areas
An integrated review of six areas that determine reliability
Reliability is rarely limited by one department. Tuned Mass examines six connected areas, because a weakness in any of them shows up as equipment downtime somewhere else.
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Workflow and process flow
How a fault becomes a task, and how long it stays in each pair of hands before anything happens.
03
Work order standardization
Whether your work orders can be analyzed a year from now, or only read.
04
Procurement and logistics integration
Whether spare parts availability is driven by equipment criticality or by past ordering habits.
05
Equipment reliability
Failure history, criticality ranking, and the maintenance strategy each asset actually deserves.
06
Digitalization
Whether your CMMS supports the way you work, or your people work around it.
Program
We do not bring you
someone else’s program
Most reliability consulting starts with a framework and adapts your plant to it. We start with your plant.
- Starts from a standard methodology
- Delivers a program to implement
- Recommends the full scope
- Requires your processes to change to fit the model
- Touches budgets, cost centers, and accounting
- Reports findings
- Starts from a diagnosis of your plant
- Delivers changes to a system you already run
- Recommends only what the analysis justifies
- Adapts to the processes you have
- Leaves your financial model untouched
- Works alongside your team through the change
None of this means working without method. The method is the analysis.
What we refuse to do is decide what your plant needs before we have seen it.
Results
What stays untouched
Tuned Mass does not modify your financial model, your accounting, or your cost structure. We do not restructure departments and we do not recommend headcount changes as a substitute for fixing
a process.
The engagement refreshes the system you have, confirms that parts of it are working correctly, or identifies risk early enough to act on it. In practice, a significant part of every analysis is telling a client which of their concerns are not actually problems.
Four stages
Step
01
System analysis
We review documentation, maintenance history, work order data, CMMS records, and the current organizational setup. What we cannot read from data, we ask about.
Typical duration:
about 1 week
Step
02
Diagnostics
On site. Processes, equipment condition, and the interactions between maintenance, production, and procurement. Most of what matters is found here, not in the documentation.
Typical duration:
3 to 7 days on site
Step
03
Tailored solutions
A written set of recommendations with priorities, expected effect, and the effort each one requires. Ordered by what will change your numbers fastest.
Typical duration:
3 to 6 weeks
Step
04
Collaboration
We stay involved while your team implements. Recommendations that nobody owns do not change anything, so this stage exists to make sure the report does not end up in a drawer.
Typical duration:
3 to 6 months
Every engagement ends with a written report your team can act on without us in the room.
Results
Measured outcomes
01
Durcon, a Wilsonart company
A full CMMS rebuild covering asset hierarchy, PM structure, workflows and data standards.
Unplanned downtime
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Polyplastic Group
Reliability improvements, an optimized spare parts strategy and the elimination of chronic bottleneck failures.
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Figures come from plants Dmitrii ran as head of maintenance and engineering before founding Tuned Mass.
Is this for you
- You run a manufacturing operation with up to 500 employees
- Maintenance costs or downtime are rising and you cannot point to a single cause
- You have a CMMS you do not fully trust, or no CMMS at all and maintenance runs on spreadsheets and memory
- You have the authority to change how maintenance works in your plant
- You are looking for a certified methodology implementation
- You need a staffing or interim management solution
- You want a report to justify a decision that has already been made
If this is not a fit, we will tell you in the first call and save you the cost of finding out later.
Who runs the analysis
Dmitrii Spashchanskii
Over 20 years of progressive experience in manufacturing operations. I have led maintenance, reliability, and engineering operations across beverage manufacturing, industrial materials, plastic piping and thermoplastic composites, HVAC systems production, consumer electronics, and plastic household goods manufacturing. Experience spans both high speed automated environments and complex multi site industrial operations, including greenfield plant development and full cycle production line engineering.
The equipment behind that: high speed packaging and filling lines, industrial robotics, CNC machining centers, hydraulic and pneumatic systems, PLC and SCADA controlled automation, and the pumps, motors, gearboxes and drives that everything else depends on.
I started Tuned Mass because of a pattern I saw repeatedly. Plants were buying reliability programs that were technically correct and organizationally impossible, and eighteen months later nothing had changed except the budget.
Every analysis is run by me, from the first call to the last review. You will not be handed to a junior consultant after the first meeting.
Dmitrii SpashchanskiiFounder, Tuned Mass
FAQ
The questions we are asked before every analysis
Short answers. If yours is not here, ask it on the first 30 minute call.
Something not covered here?
Ask it on the first call. It takes 30 minutes and commits you to nothing.
Five to eight weeks from the first call to the written report. Diagnostics take 3 to 7 days on site.
Access to your maintenance history and work order data, and time with the people who do the work. The last one matters more than the first two. No prepared presentations, no cleaned up data.
We work with what you have. The analysis looks at how your CMMS is configured and used, not at which product it is. If maintenance runs on spreadsheets, we start there. A new system is recommended only if the analysis justifies it.
No. Diagnostics take 3 to 7 days on site and consist of observation and short conversations with technicians, planners, and supervisors during their normal shift. Nothing is stopped or taken offline. Implementation is done by your people, at a pace your operation can absorb.
Every project is different, and the cost depends on your facility size, equipment complexity, and the level of support required. Publishing fixed prices would be misleading, because a small company with a compact operation and limited resources needs a very different approach than a large manufacturing plant.
I work with businesses of all sizes, including small and growing companies, and provide clear cost ranges upfront, with a precise quote after the system analysis, once your goals and operational baseline are fully understood.
Contact us
Request a System Analysis
The first step is a 30 minute call. We ask about your plant, your current numbers, and what prompted you to look for this. If an analysis is not the right move, we will tell you in that call.
We respond within one business day.