About Quartania

Ask a site why a pump is A-critical and you will usually get a name rather than an answer. Someone knows. It was worked out properly, once, by someone who understood the plant. Where that reasoning is written down, and whether it is still current, is a different question and the answer is usually uncomfortable.

That is the problem Quartania works on. We are a reliability engineering and asset management consultancy in Perth, working with reliability engineers, maintenance superintendents and asset managers in mining, utilities, heavy industry and infrastructure.

We also build software. That is the part worth knowing about us.

The problem we kept meeting

Every asset-intensive site runs a CMMS or EAM — SAP PM, Maximo, Ellipse. Those systems are good at what they were built for: recording that work was requested, scheduled, done and costed. They hold the transactions and the asset master, and they hold them well.

What they were never built to hold is the why. Why this pump is A-critical. Which failure mode a monthly vibration survey is actually targeting. Why the interval is thirty days and not ninety. That reasoning is produced during a criticality assessment or an FMECA workshop, written into a spreadsheet, referenced for a while, and then slowly stops being maintained. Two years on it exists in three overlapping versions and in the heads of a few engineers.

Then somebody leaves, or an auditor asks, or finance challenges the PM budget, and nobody can produce it. The engineering was fine. It just had nowhere durable to live.

How we work

We do the analysis, and we build the place it lives. On the consulting side that means facilitating FMECA and RCM studies and maintenance strategy reviews, and building criticality frameworks that survive an ISO 55001 audit. On the software side it means bespoke asset and maintenance data systems, and Stannar — the reliability system of record we build as a product.

Consultants who do not build software hand you a deliverable that starts decaying the day the engagement ends. We have written enough of those. Vendors who have never sat through a workshop build software that assumes the analysis is already done and correct, which is a wonderful assumption if you have never met a real asset register. We would rather close that gap than sell across it.

Practically: engagements start with a call. We scope in writing, fixed-price where the work can honestly be fixed-priced. If a problem is not ours to solve, we will tell you.

Where we draw the line

We do not replace your EAM, and we do not propose to. The asset master, the work orders and the cost history stay in SAP, Maximo or Ellipse — those systems are the record of what happened, and there is no good reason to fight them for it. What we hold is the layer beside them: failure modes, criticality, the justification behind each task, and the provenance of every one of those decisions.

We also do not infer engineering judgement from master data. Pattern-match an equipment description and you get a criticality rating that will not survive its first serious question, dressed up as analysis. That is worse than leaving the field blank — at least a blank field is honest about what nobody has done yet. Analysis gets authored by an engineer, signed off by a name, and dated.

Quartania Pty Ltd is an Australian company, ABN 14 631 096 770, operating from Perth and working with clients across Western Australia and nationally.