For thirty years, the MAINSTREAM research programme has tracked the ambitions, frustrations, and hard-won progress of asset management, maintenance, and reliability professionals across Australia and New Zealand.
We have organised this year’s report around five fundamental transitions shaping the profession,
followed by twelve specific obstacles that emerged most powerfully from the
research. The transitions describe the broad shifts the profession must navigate. The obstacles identify where the profession is stuck. Together, they provide both the strategic context and the operational specificity that leaders need to act.