MCP Consulting Group Ltd

03/11/2026

How reliable is your plant… really? 👀

Plant reliability isn’t just about reacting when something goes wrong. It’s about understanding where the risks are, improving maintenance approaches and building reliability into the way the plant is managed.

Our Managing Plant Reliability (MPR) course is designed for managers and engineers looking to strengthen their understanding of plant reliability and maintenance management.

📍 Solihull
📅 1st–3rd December

If improving plant performance is on your agenda, this could be a useful three days to finish the year with.

👉 https://zurl.co/kvbdJ

19/10/2026

If every building is critical, is any building really critical?

That's the question we recently helped a major UK organisation answer across 431 buildings and two strategically important facilities.

Using a risk-based Building Criticality Assessment, we worked with the client's FM and asset management teams to establish a consistent view of operational importance across the estate.

The results were revealing:

📊 58% of buildings were classified as Low Importance
📊 31% as Medium Importance
📊 Just 11% were classified as High or Ultra-High Importance

Read the full case study here: https://zurl.co/c7y2y

14/10/2026

A quick reminder that there are now only a handful of places remaining for our November Open Day:

Improving Maintenance Performance & Reducing Costs

Join us for a practical day of discussion, insight, and real-world examples focused on helping organisations improve maintenance performance, increase reliability, and reduce costs.

If you've been thinking about attending, now's the time to secure your place before the remaining tickets are gone.

👉 Book your place on Eventbrite: https://zurl.co/lNLUY

13/10/2026

Planning training for the months ahead?

We've updated our Management Training Calendar with the latest course dates, making it easier to plan development opportunities across your organisation.

Whether you're supporting new managers or experienced leaders, now is the perfect time to secure places before courses reach capacity.

Take a look at the latest schedule: https://zurl.co/6xHwH

12/10/2026

Our Technical Training Calendar has been updated with the latest course dates.

Whether you're planning training for a single engineer or an entire maintenance team, now's a great time to review upcoming availability and secure your preferred dates before places fill up.

With programmes designed to develop the skills, knowledge, and competence of engineering and maintenance professionals, there's plenty to explore in the latest schedule.

View the latest schedule: https://zurl.co/ClrSX

If the published dates don't quite fit your requirements, leave a comment below or get in touch. We also offer on-site training and would be happy to discuss a solution that works for your team.

01/10/2026

More maintenance doesn’t necessarily mean better maintenance.

For one large infrastructure organisation, the challenge wasn’t simply having enough people to maintain its assets. It was understanding whether its existing maintenance programme was making the best use of the resources available.

With an ageing technical workforce and a new CMMS being introduced, the organisation took the opportunity to review its asset data, maintenance plans and resource requirements.

The findings were significant.

A structured Review Existing Maintenance programme identified an approximately 79% reduction in required in-house planned maintenance hours, alongside opportunities to:

✅ Transfer suitable activities to Operations
✅ Introduce multi-skilled tasks
✅ Improve safety and legal compliance planning
✅ Cleanse and improve asset data
✅ Better align maintenance resources with asset criticality

The key takeaway?

It wasn’t about simply cutting maintenance.

It was about understanding what needed to be maintained, how often, and who was best placed to do it.

Read the full infrastructure case study here:

https://zurl.co/BfpHK

28/09/2026

Does every asset really need a FMECA?

It’s a question worth asking.

FMECA is a powerful tool for developing risk-based maintenance strategies, but carrying out detailed analysis across an entire asset base can take significant time and engineering resource.

Before diving into FMECA, it can make sense to take a step back and review what maintenance is already being carried out.

Are the asset records accurate?
Are maintenance tasks still appropriate?
Are some activities duplicated or being carried out too frequently?
And are your skilled engineers spending time where they can add the most value?

Our latest article looks at Review Existing Maintenance (REM) and how it can help organisations establish a clearer picture of their maintenance programme before deciding where detailed FMECA is really needed.

A useful read if you're looking at maintenance optimisation, resource constraints or building a more risk-based strategy.

Read it here:
https://zurl.co/TgKHR

Discover how Review Existing Maintenance can optimise maintenance, reduce resource requirements and focus FMECA where it delivers greatest value.

24/09/2026

What if your maintenance programme could be reduced by 79% without compromising the maintenance that actually matters?

That was the result of an MCP project with a large infrastructure organisation.

The organisation was facing an ageing technical workforce, concerns around future maintenance resources and the implementation of a new CMMS.

Rather than simply transferring its existing maintenance programme into a new system, we helped review it from the ground up.

The work included:

• Cleansing the existing asset database
• Assessing asset importance and criticality
• Reviewing existing maintenance plans
• Analysing maintenance resource requirements
• Identifying opportunities to change how work was delivered

The result?

Around 30,000 in-house planned maintenance hours were identified for reduction, equivalent to 79% of the existing requirement.

The project also identified opportunities to transfer appropriate activities to Operations, introduce multi-skilled tasks, strengthen compliance planning and improve the quality of asset data.

Read the full case study to see how the approach worked in practice:

https://zurl.co/7boVz

21/09/2026

Management Training Skills Gap Quiz

Understanding your strengths and identifying areas for development is key to professional growth. This quiz is designed to evaluate your current knowledge across essential maintenance management and engineering topics, helping you pinpoint skill gaps and opportunities for improvement.

Whether you're managing a high-performing team or looking to identify blind spots, this quick assessment pinpoints training needs across a range of technical areas — and delivers practical next steps.

🔍 Takes 5 minutes. Could save you months in lost performance.

👉 Try the quiz now: https://zurl.co/mQy2i

17/09/2026

You can’t outsource understanding.

FMECA is a powerful tool...
.but only when your team knows how to apply it effectively.

That’s where training makes the difference.

When engineers and managers understand how to:
• Identify failure modes properly
• Assess risk with consistency
• Translate analysis into practical actions

…FMECA becomes more than a document—it becomes a decision-making tool.

And that’s when you start to see real improvements in reliability, cost control, and performance.

🎓 Build that capability in-house: https://zurl.co/vkRgO