A grease point on a conveyor drive, tucked behind the guarding. To reach it: isolate the whole conveyor, pull the guard, grease it, put the guard back, re-verify. Half an hour, gone, every single week - for the life of the asset. It could have sat ten centimeters to the left and never needed any of it. That's design for maintainability in one image. Not a poster slogan - a specific check run during the engineering phase, before a design becomes real.

Pete and Drew walk through what that review actually looks like (asset classes, access criteria, a walk-through for what's built and a desktop review for what's still on paper), then take it through the PCR Triad: the buried grease point and ground-level motors that cost hours in avoidable labour and downtime, the crane access nobody planned for, and the harder truth on Risk - jobs that are difficult by design are jobs that get skipped under pressure, and a skipped task can resurface months later as a "mechanical failure" that was never really mechanical at all.

Break Tip: pick an asset that's about to be built, under construction, or one your team always complains about. Trace every lubrication, filter, and inspection point and ask whether it's genuinely easy to access, replace, or maintain - including whether there's room for the crane, not just the person. Flag anything that fails. That one flag might be the difference between a pen mark on a drawing and a retrofit years down the track.