The idea
Capital plans treat capacity as constant. It isn't.
01
Time and use wear assets down
Every load, shift, and season spends some of what a system can do in the future. Capacity used today may have been borrowed from tomorrow.
02
Rest or repair can restore capacity
Some capacity comes back. Knowing how much, and how fast, changes when replacement makes sense.
03
Worn-out capacity means unplanned costs
Capital plans may defer repair or run assets to the point they can't meet demand when it's needed later. The bill for extra wear eventually comes due.
04
Measured durability can control these costs
By tracking how capacity wears down, repair and replacements can be timed more efficiently, instead of forced by asset failure.
Physical assets
Equipment + Machinery
Remaining useful life, replacement timing, and true maintenance costs, measured from real operating records
Two lenses for our research
Budgets, timelines and incentives push organizations toward short-term choices. There's a cost to those choices over an asset's life.
Human Capital Assets
People
Shift workers and technicians experiencing burn out or fatigue, subject to schedules and turnover that shape what an operation can sustain
In Progress
Mobile equipment fleets
Buses and other service vehicles where age, mileage, and usage patterns shape when assets should be replaced or assigned to pre-determined routes.
EXPLORING
Mining + heavy equipment
Rail cars, loaders, and specialized equipment that run around the clock. Duty cycles, rebuild vs. replace timing, or lease vs. purchase decisions.
RESEARCH AREAS
What we're working on...
Exploring
Shift work + crew capacity
Warehouses, healthcare, or similar professional settings where schedules, coverage, and turnover can wear down labor output.
Exploring
Grid enhancing technology
Dynamic line ratings and reconductoring of existing transmission lines, and how such enhancements can inform degraded capacity in the future.
WHAT WE PUBLISH
Case studies
In-depth examinations of how real assets and crews age in real operations
Data + indices
Multi-year lifecycle curves and anonymized data that existing data may not cover
Talks + briefs
Findings presented at conferences or shared with groups that run or finance such operations
STEP 01
Talk with us
We’ll scope out what matters to your operation, and the people or assets planned around it.
Join a case study
We study how your equipment or staffing holds up over time. You get a confidential summary of your own operation, and any published findings are anonymized.
STEP 02
Share your records
Share equipment records or staffing data. No Individually identifiable info required or published.
Step 03
Get your findings
Receive your confidential summary, plus the published case study when it’s released.
Increase in trucking repair and maintenance costs in 2025
Cost of replacing an individual employee compared to their annual salary
The problem in numbers
The market shows the same pattern across each of our research areas. Capacity changes with time and use, and costs show up when plans don’t fully account for it.
Share of mining capital spent sustaining existing assets
Spending on electricity transmission systems from 2003 to 2023