O&M Review & Cost Alignment
NAES Asset Solutions helps owners evaluate how operations and maintenance are executed, how staffing and contractor models align with facility needs, how plant performance compares with benchmarks, and how OPEX decisions affect availability, reliability, risk, and cost.
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O&M performance is shaped by operating practices, staffing, training, maintenance planning, work control, contractor strategy, asset condition, backlog, operating profile, and cost discipline. Looking at maintenance cost alone can miss the operating conditions and execution practices that are creating the cost.
NAES Asset Solutions evaluates cost and performance together so owners can understand where operating and maintenance practices are aligned with facility objectives, and where gaps may be affecting availability, reliability, execution capacity, or OPEX.
The objective is to make the “O” and the “M” visible in the same decision framework.
For a broader cross-functional operational review, see Operational Excellence & Operations Performance.
What O&M Review can address
Review operating practices, shift routines, operator rounds, procedure adherence, and operating discipline.
Evaluate whether staffing levels, training, qualifications, and resource coverage align with operations, maintenance, outage, and project requirements.
Review planning, scheduling, work control, preventive and predictive maintenance effectiveness, and the execution discipline supporting day-to-day maintenance.
Evaluate CMMS usage, backlog health, work-order quality, and whether the system is supporting consistent O&M execution.
Review O&M cost structure and cost drivers when appropriate data is available for evaluation and benchmarking.
Review contracted services, vendor utilization, labor deployment, execution models, and opportunities for stronger commercial oversight.
Compare key plant performance metrics with industry data to understand performance position and whether improvement opportunities are operationally and financially meaningful.
Evaluate whether OPEX decisions reduce, increase, or shift operating risk and how those decisions relate to reliability, availability, and facility objectives.
How NAES performs the assessment
The O&M Assessment is a structured review derived from NAES Operational Excellence and reliability standards. The scope is tailored to the facility and informed by document review, site observations, plant data, and engagement with leadership and frontline personnel.
What owners receive
Why it matters
Cost reduction without operational visibility can create future reliability, compliance, staffing, or execution problems. Deferred work without prioritization can increase uncertainty. Operating practices that have become normalized over time can also contribute to forced outages, startup failures, backlog growth, inefficient labor use, or inconsistent procedure adherence.
NAES Asset Solutions helps owners connect operating discipline, maintenance execution, cost, risk, reliability, and resource capacity before OPEX decisions are made in isolation.
Related EP support
For workforce models, temporary support, direct recruitment, outage staffing, and resource planning.
For execution support tied to corrective work, upgrades, retrofits, and outage-related projects.
For diagnostic support where equipment condition may affect maintenance cost, outage scope, or reliability.
NAES Asset Solutions helps owners evaluate O&M execution, operating practices, staffing, contractor strategy, performance benchmarks, and asset priorities in one practical framework.
