We design, implement, and improve maintenance operations at industrial plants — from a single-site assessment to a multi-year, full-scope partnership. We deliver measurable results in productivity, availability, and maintenance costs — driven by facts, not guesswork.
Every decision-maker faces different barriers on the path to operational performance. The answer to each is the same fact-based method.
How do I achieve comparable performance across every site — and prove it to the board?
From an eight-area assessment to full maintenance outsourcing — four levels that scale to your needs. Each works on its own and can build on the next as required.
Targeted advisory engagements that address specific maintenance challenges — from CMMS deployment to reliability-centred strategies. Fixed scope, defined outcomes, no hidden dependencies.
Real-world results from global industrial maintenance deployments.
Doubled plant output over 5 years for a global electronics manufacturer in Hungary through OEE optimization and a harmonized reliability maintenance framework.
Two decades of experience inside the world's largest factories — the full spectrum of industrial maintenance from a single partner.
We don't just measure OEE — we improve it. We stand up the measurement, define the KPIs, and run targeted projects that eliminate availability, performance, and quality losses.
We make maintenance visible: systems and IoT sensors take over from paper and manual data entry, and that data comes together into a clear decision-support picture. From reactive break-fix to preventive and then predictive maintenance — all built on the client's existing platform.
We build the maintenance function before start-up, not after. Organisation, preventive-maintenance plans, and CMMS — all in place before the first production cycle. The result is a meaningfully shorter ramp-up to full capacity.
We work vendor-independently — across IBM Maximo, SAP PM, Hexagon EAM, and other platforms. On new rollouts we work alongside the system-implementation partner; on existing systems we build on the platform already in use — refining its data structure, workflows, and KPIs.
Structured assessments that give an objective picture of the current state of maintenance and the functions that support it. With systematic findings prioritised by financial impact, they give you a firm basis for improvement decisions.
65+ specialized competencies across 6 core disciplines
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Propelance is an independent industrial maintenance consultancy. We work exclusively in manufacturing maintenance — we don't do building or facility management. We design, implement, and improve maintenance operations: from strategy through reliability-centred operations to CMMS implementation and OEE measurement, drawing on experience in some of the world's largest plants. We're an operational partner, not a traditional consultancy: we work on the plant floor, not from the boardroom.
We work industry-agnostically, in both continuous and discrete manufacturing. We have experience in every sector except nuclear power. Our references span electronics, food production, pulp & paper, chemicals, oil & gas, energy, and machinery manufacturing. We adapt our established maintenance frameworks to each sector's operational and regulatory environment.
Yes. At the end of the Assessment, we present the expected OEE gain as a quantified estimate — in both percentage and euro terms. If you run the implementation with us as well, we set the outcome targets together in the engagement and track them transparently. We don't just hand over a presentation — we work alongside you to deliver the results.
Through measurable metrics: OEE, technical availability, unplanned downtime, and maintenance costs. We work from facts, not gut feeling — the median OEE improvement across our projects is 13.7%.
With us, you get a partner that sees maintenance in its full context. Over nearly two decades, we haven't specialised in a single niche but across the areas that define maintenance: financial impact, occupational safety (HSE), OEE, reliability, and operational processes alike. A traditional consultant delivers a report and moves on — we work in the plant alongside your team and see the change through as an operational partner.
Leadership receives a set of structured findings: where the gaps are, where good practices are already working, and the improvement opportunities ranked by financial impact. The maintenance team gets a quantified picture of its own operation, along with concrete, prioritised action points. We also run a dedicated workshop to interpret the findings together.
Yes — it's one of our strongest areas. We build maintenance operations from the ground up at new plants: from the organisation and processes through CMMS to spare-parts management. With our support, a Chinese pulp mill achieved the fastest ramp-up in the industry — see the full case study for the details.
We work system-agnostically — on IBM Maximo, SAP PM, Hexagon EAM, and other platforms. We don't install the software ourselves: we design and build the maintenance solutions that run on the platform — data structures, configurations, workflows, and KPIs.
Quantified OEE and financial estimates are based on the data available at the time of the Assessment and on our professional methodology; actual results also depend on the execution conditions provided by the client. Specific contractual warranty terms are defined separately for each engagement.