Bad Actor Equipment

What this topic covers

Identify assets that repeatedly consume downtime, maintenance labor or integrity attention.

Core ideas

Bad-actor lists can use failure frequency, downtime, maintenance cost or risk.

Ranking should distinguish chronic minor failures from rare high-consequence problems.

Actions can include redesign, maintenance improvement, operating change or replacement.

Program tradeoffs

Condition-based maintenance only works when degradation can be detected with enough lead time to act.

What good evidence looks like

Backlog and work priority should reflect risk, readiness and consequence—not age alone.

Lifecycle perspective

Repeat failures are opportunities to remove causes through design, installation, operating or maintenance improvements.