Forge Advisory
Preventative maintenance auditing
the hidden cost of neglect.
As businesses grow, production expands - but maintenance programs often don’t. What worked when the machines were new falls apart with age. Scaling without scaling maintenance is a silent and expensive liability. Machines break down, unplanned downtime grinds production to a halt, and suddenly your customers are waiting because you are waiting on parts and repair. The average manufacturer loses 5-20% of productive capacity annually due to unplanned downtime. A single equipment failure can mean weeks of lost productivity waiting on parts, a cost that far outweighs the investment in a strong preventative and predictive maintenance program.
Why Forge Advisory?
We step in to audit your maintenance practices with a fresh eye. Our approach goes beyond checking boxes — we evaluate whether your systems are scaling alongside your growth, and where gaps will cost you tomorrow.
What You Get:
Preventative Maintenance Audit – Are your PM schedules realistic, enforced, and tracked?
Predictive Maintenance Review – Leveraging data, sensors, and AI tools to predict failures before they happen.
Scalability Assessment – Ensuring your maintenance structure can keep up with operational expansion.
Parts & Supply Risk Review – Identifying critical components with long lead times and planning around them.
Workforce Alignment – Training and empowering maintenance staff to move from reactive firefighting to proactive problem-solving.
Operations & Systems Principles at Work:
Tribal Knowledge is Fragile – If maintenance lives in one person’s head, you’re one absence away from failure.
Standards Require Updating – SOPs written 10 years ago don’t keep today’s machines running.
Bottlenecks Hide in Downtime – Equipment failures are often the biggest productivity choke points.
Small Fixes Prevent Big Costs – Routine checks today avoid catastrophic failures tomorrow.
The outcome.
You gain a clear, prioritized roadmap for scaling maintenance with your Business growth. Instead of scrambling when machines fail, you own a preventative and predictive playbook that keeps production running and customers satisfied.