The Five-Minute Job

The Five-Minute Job

What AI Really Does to Your KPIs, and the Hour You Still Owe Them

ByJohan Nortje

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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)

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