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Changing Operational Maintenance Culture from Reactive to Condition Lead

Perspective
Maintenance Stage

The business challenge was to transition from a reactive and time-based maintenance culture to a proactive, condition-led approach. To achieve this, the right techniques, tools and skills were identified to support new ways of working. To address the skills and people change aspect, we established the capability required for the transition by deploying precision maintenance tools, developing targeted training programme’s, and supported the frontline personnel's upskilling. This enabled operational and maintenance teams to adopt new technologies effectively and embed sustainable condition-based maintenance practices across areas of the business.

  • The scale of the challenge / change to move away from a reactive approach
  • How we identified where and what to focus our activity on
  • How we brought operations and maintenance along with us
  • How we developed key personnel
  • What we learned along the way
Topics:

Breaking Free from Reactive Maintenance Culture

Speakers

Gordon Raffel

Principal Mechanical Engineer

Scottish Water

20-21 October 2026

Birmingham, UK

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