The presentation addresses a common and costly issue in maintenance and reliability. The lack of a structured, accountable process for commissioning equipment back into service after a plant outage. Based on experience across Heidelberg Materials sites within the UK, it sets out a practical case study showing how a repeatable commissioning standard was developed and introduced across three cement works and three grinding plants.

The session explains how accountability is set across three phases which are commissioning checks, snagging repairs, and final production sign-off. With clear ownership at each stage. It shows how Machine Sentry is used as the single source of truth for commissioning data, capturing asset-level checks, tracking defects through to closure, and maintaining a full audit trail.

It also covers how vibration and oil analysis are built into the commissioning process, helping to identify issues missed during shutdown before they develop into failures. A hard quality gate is applied so no asset is handed back to production until all statuses are green, and the reality of maintaining this under restart pressure is discussed. The content focuses on practical application rather than theory, including the people, process, and technical challenges of standardising across multiple sites.