The Five-Minute Job
What AI Really Does to Your KPIs, and the Hour You Still Owe Them
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AI does the four-day job in five minutes. It does not do the hour you still owe it.
Book Three in the From Then to Now series. AI can now generate the KPI report that used to take a maintenance planner four days — MTBF, wrench time, RPN, all of it, in minutes. The Five-Minute Job is about what happens next: the hour of checking that the report is right, that the denominator makes sense, that the number the algorithm is confident about is a number worth being confident in.
This isn't a book against AI. It's a book against handing it your judgment along with your workload. The algorithm doesn't know what "good" looks like on your plant. You do. That gap is the job now, and it doesn't close because the report arrived faster.
Inside:
Chapter One — The Five-Minute Job
Chapter Two — The Hour You Still Owe
Chapter Three — AI Doesn't Know What "Good" Looks Like, You Do
Chapter Four — MTBF, Reimagined
Chapter Five — Percent Into Tons
Chapter Six — Wrench Time Lies
Chapter Seven — Bad on Two Counts
Chapter Eight — RPN Without the Room
Chapter Nine — The Voice from Upstairs, Automated
Chapter Ten — The Voice from the Floor, Finally Heard
Chapter Eleven — The Denominator Did It
Chapter Twelve — ISO 55000 in an AI World
Chapter Thirteen — Verify Like an Auditor, Not a Fan
Chapter Fourteen — The Next Room
Chapter Fifteen — A Day With the Machine
Chapter Sixteen — Bringing the Machine into the Room
The tools keep getting faster. The verification discipline is still yours to keep.
For any reliability, maintenance, or asset-management professional who has ever trusted a number a little too quickly.
Details
- Publication Date
- Sep 13, 2026
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781291529586
- Category
- Engineering
- Copyright
- All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
- Contributors
- By (author): Johan Nortje
Specifications
- Pages
- 70
- Binding Type
- Paperback Perfect Bound
- Interior Color
- Black & White
- Dimensions
- US Trade (6 x 9 in / 152 x 229 mm)