Engineering consultancy & reliability support
Practical engineering consultancy and reliability support that reduces downtime, extends asset life, and improves operational efficiency.
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Years in reliability engineering
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Typical reduction in unplanned downtime
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Report turnaround after a site visit
ISO 18436-2
Vibration Analysis Category III
ISO 18436-7
Thermography Category II
MLA I
Machine Lubricant Analyst
15+ years
Rotating plant experience
UK-wide
Site coverage
01 — About the practice
Reliability Support Services is led by Ronald Munodawafa, a UK-based reliability and condition-monitoring engineer. Whether the scope is a single critical asset or an entire facility, the work is the same: understand how the plant fails, measure what matters, and put a proportionate strategy in place. Engagements range from one-off diagnostic surveys to ongoing reliability programme support.
The value is not in supplying readings. It is in interpreting them — identifying developing trends, separating genuine defects from noise, and giving maintenance teams practical recommendations they can act on. Reporting is written for engineers and managers alike: clear findings, defensible reasoning, and a stated priority for each action.
02 — Core services
Structured engineering services covering failure elimination, maintenance strategy, asset integrity, data analysis, and lifecycle consultancy.
Identifying and eliminating the root causes of equipment failure.
Building effective, data-led maintenance strategies.
Improving availability across the asset base.
Turning operational and maintenance data into decisions.
Support throughout the asset lifecycle.
03 — Condition monitoring
Hands-on condition monitoring by an experienced engineer using calibrated equipment, with clear, actionable reporting against recognised standards.
Monitoring of electric motors, pumps, fans, compressors, gearboxes and turbines to detect bearing defects, misalignment, looseness, imbalance and resonance before they become failures.
Vibration Analysis in detailNon-invasive thermal imaging of switchgear, MCCs, transformers, mechanical equipment and building envelopes, detecting overheating components while equipment stays operational.
Infrared Thermography in detailLaboratory-backed lubricant testing that reveals wear, contamination and degradation early, covering routine condition monitoring, wear debris, hydraulic and transformer oils.
Oil Analysis in detailSingle- and two-plane balancing performed on site, correcting rotor imbalance in fans, motors, pumps and turbines without equipment removal.
On-Site Dynamic Balancing in detail
Vibration analysis identifies the defect; on-site dynamic balancing corrects it. Motors, fans, pumps and turbines are assessed in their installed condition, and single- or two-plane balancing is carried out in place — avoiding removal, reducing vibration levels, protecting bearings, and cutting parasitic energy losses.
Discuss a survey04 — Scope and standards
Measurements are evaluated against published standards and machine history, so findings are defensible rather than opinion.
05 — How it works
A straightforward sequence, whether the scope is a single problem machine or a site-wide monitoring programme.
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A short call to understand the plant, the problem, the criticality of the asset and what a good outcome looks like. No charge, no obligation.
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Attendance on site with calibrated instrumentation. Measurements are taken with equipment running in normal operating condition wherever possible.
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Data is analysed against recognised standards and machine history. You receive a written report with findings, supporting plots and a severity ranking.
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Prioritised actions with a stated retest interval, plus support in interpreting results and planning corrective work at the next available window.
06 — Case snapshots
Anonymised examples of what condition monitoring picks up and what it saves. Client names and locations are withheld.
Food & beverage
Manufacturing
Water & wastewater
07 — Sectors
Experience across regulated, continuous-process and heavy rotating plant environments.
Why choose us
Hands-on industry experience across rotating and static plant, applied on site rather than from a template.
Recommendations grounded in objective measurement, established standards and reliability best practice.
Programmes built around your operational goals, criticality and existing maintenance capability.
A focus on eliminating repeat failures and sustaining performance, not on short-term fixes.
In their words
Feedback from maintenance and engineering teams. Names and sites are withheld at client request.
The survey picked up an outer race defect on a critical extraction fan six weeks before our next planned shutdown. We changed the bearing on our terms rather than theirs.
Reports are written for engineers. Findings, evidence, and a stated priority — nothing padded. It made the case for a predictive programme far easier to put to the board.
On-site balancing of two induced draught fans saved us a strip-down and a week of lost output. Straightforward, competent work.
08 — Questions
Site work is undertaken anywhere in the UK — mainland England, Scotland and Wales, plus Northern Ireland and offshore locations by arrangement. Travel further afield can be discussed for larger programmes.
Routine surveys are usually scheduled within one to two weeks. Where a machine is deteriorating or a shutdown decision depends on the result, attendance can normally be arranged at short notice.
Both are available. Many clients start with a single diagnostic visit on a problem asset, then move to a scheduled route once the value is clear. There is no minimum commitment.
Safe access to the machine while it is running in a representative operating condition, a site induction, and any permits your safety system requires. Motor and drive nameplate data and recent maintenance history are helpful but not essential.
Written reports are issued within three working days of the visit as standard. Any finding judged to be an imminent failure risk is raised verbally before leaving site.
Each asset is assessed against the relevant ISO severity bands and its criticality to your process, then given a clear action and timescale — monitor, plan, or act now. Recommendations are proportionate to the risk, not blanket replacement.
09 — Who you are working with
Principal Reliability Engineer
Most failures announce themselves long before they happen. The job is to be listening at the right time, with the right instrument, and to say plainly what the data means.
Ronald is a reliability and condition-monitoring engineer with over fifteen years working on rotating and static plant across manufacturing, power generation, and water treatment. He has run condition monitoring routes on continuous-process sites, led root cause investigations on repeat failures, and built predictive maintenance programmes from scratch.
He founded Reliability Support Services to offer that experience directly to plant and maintenance teams: independent, without an equipment sales agenda, and focused on giving engineers findings they can defend to their own management.
Commercial arrangements
Work is scoped before it is priced. Every engagement begins with a short call to establish the asset list, the problem, and the level of support required.
A single visit to investigate a specific problem asset or a defined group of machines, with a full written report and recommendations.
Priced per visit, quoted after a short scoping call.
Scheduled monthly or quarterly visits covering an agreed asset list, with trending between visits and severity-based escalation.
Priced per route, based on asset count and visit frequency.
Retained engineering input: criticality analysis, maintenance strategy, RCFA facilitation and KPI development alongside your team.
Agreed as a day rate or fixed monthly allocation.
10 — Contact
Looking for engineering consultancy or condition monitoring support? Get in touch to discuss your operational challenges and receive a free, no-obligation quote.
When you email, it helps to include your company, site location, the equipment involved, and which service you are interested in:
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Currently accepting new site work across the UK. Enquiries are answered directly by Ronald Munodawafa. Site work is undertaken across the UK, with travel further afield by arrangement.
