Operate · Acquire to Retire
An asset moves through its life one decision at a time, and each decision rests on a reading somebody took, a record somebody updated and a permit somebody signed. Nothing in that sequence says which way the balance has tipped. Those points are where the digital coworkers stand, inside the systems you already run.
Every control on this chain is real, and every one of them is applied by somebody who already has a job. The gap is between what the asset is doing and what the record of it says, and the asset does not wait for the person who would have known what to look for.
A$21.27M
Maximum monetary penalty for industrial manslaughter against a body corporate, indexed annually and varying by jurisdiction
Safe Work Australia model, 1 July 2026
20 years
Maximum term of imprisonment for an individual on the same offence, and in several states insurance for these fines is prohibited
Safe Work Australia model, 1 July 2026
Section 27
The due diligence duty on officers is personal, non-delegable and prospective, and appointing a competent safety manager does not discharge it
Model Work Health and Safety Act, as defined by Safe Work Australia
ISO 55001
The standard asks for a reproducible decision: what was known, what was weighed and who decided, recorded at the point it was decided
ISO 55001:2024
Where the pressure shows up
A job sits on the schedule with the scope vague, the part unreserved and the right trade discovered after it starts.
Who feels itMaintenance planner · schedule-ready rate
The crew travels, the window opens, and the job fails for a part, a permit or a certification nobody confirmed first.
Who feels itMaintenance manager · first-time-fix rate
Thresholds set loose fire late and thresholds set tight fire constantly, so either way the alarms stop being a signal.
Who feels itReliability engineer · time from signal to owned action
The permit form is complete while the job is not safe, because a prerequisite that is nearly met gets treated as met.
Who feels itHSE manager · first-pass permit completeness
Concurrent work in the same area is known to the two supervisors running it and to no single system that can see both.
Who feels itHSE officer · held permits by failure type
Capital variance surfaces at month end, after the decision that caused it, when the exposure is already committed.
Who feels itHead of Capital Projects · time from variance emergence to ownership
Acquire to Retire covers the plant, equipment, property, technology and infrastructure the enterprise runs on. It balances performance, risk and expenditure, and the number it answers to is maximum safe availability per dollar of asset cost.
The sequence, taken from the chain’s own definition
The need is raised
·Held by your team
Capital approved
CCELIA
Buy or build
·Held by your team
Into service
·Held by your team
The asset earns
AADRIANA
Kept available
MMASON
Repair or replace
·Held by your team
Out of service
·Held by your team
The person, the task, the asset, the isolation and the permit evidence checked against the record before a crew starts, so a gap is named before entry rather than after an incident
HHARIS
Who owns this chain today
Read down any position on a chart and it tells you who is accountable for it, what its holder may do without asking, and who picks up the call that is not theirs to make. A digital coworker is written up the same way, and the answers do not change because the holder is not a person.
Employee ID
PXN‑A2R‑003
HARIS
Hazard Assessment, Readiness & Isolation Sentinel
HARIS Safety & Permit Compliance
HARIS
I propose to keep the permit held, request a fresh gas test before anyone enters, and return the permit to the authorised person once the new reading is on the record. I will not clear work to start at any point. Shall I proceed?
HSE Officer Site safety
Proceed. Nobody enters before the re-test, and the permit stays held until the reading is on the record.
Seen by HARIS
HARIS Safety & Permit Compliance
New gas test recorded against PTW‑2214 and inside its window. Every prerequisite now agrees with the record. Returned to the authorised person.
Work cleared by the authorised person.
HARIS checks a permit against the source record and holds it where a control is missing. He never issues one and never clears work to start, so the authorisation stays exactly where it sits today. The other three prepare, detect and reconcile, and a named person makes the call each time.
Maintenance Planning
Maintenance, Availability, Scheduling & Order Navigator
Acquire to Retire · PXN-A2R-001
Work chart
TodayWork reaches the schedule before anyone has confirmed it can actually be done.
With MASON in the rolePlanned work stops converting into reactive work, which is where the cost premium sits.
Asset Performance & Reliability
Asset Diagnostics, Reliability, Insight, Anomaly & Notification Advisor
Acquire to Retire · PXN-A2R-002
Work chart
TodayCondition data is collected in volume and read by nobody with the hours to spare.
With ADRIANA in the roleA window in which to plan the intervention, instead of a surprise to react to.
Safety & Permit Compliance
Hazard Assessment, Readiness & Isolation Sentinel
Acquire to Retire · PXN-A2R-003
Work chart
TodayPermit checking happens while a crew stands waiting, and the pressure is always toward proceeding.
With HARIS in the roleThe control gap is named before work starts rather than reconstructed after an incident.
Capital Project Controls
Commitment, Estimate, Ledger & Insight Advisor
Acquire to Retire · PXN-A2R-004
Work chart
TodayCost, commitment, progress and change live in different systems, so variance is debated before it is owned.
With CELIA in the roleVariance surfaces while the project can still respond to it.
Four digital coworkers hold posts across this life, from the capital case that buys the asset to the permit that lets somebody work on it, and each is measured on one number. How much it moves for you is sized from your own data in the first session.
Readiness verified, not assumed
A job is schedule-ready only when every hard prerequisite is confirmed against the record, so a crew is not sent to find out.
KPIMIncreaseSchedule-ready rate
A window instead of a surprise
Degradation is raised while the intervention can still be planned, rather than confirmed by the failure it predicted.
KPIADecreaseUnplanned downtime
Patterns a single threshold cannot see
Two readings each inside tolerance, drifting together and away from a comparable asset, is a case no alarm would have raised.
KPIADecreaseTime from signal to owned action
The gap named before work starts
A permit that does not agree with the isolation, the competency or the clock is held, with the failing prerequisite stated.
KPIHIncreaseFirst-pass permit completeness
Evidence produced as the work happens
The record an officer or a regulator would ask for is written while the job is done, so it is not reconstructed under pressure afterwards.
KPIHIncreaseIsolation verification coverage
Variance surfaced while it can still move
Commitment against physical progress is reconciled as it happens, so a divergence is owned rather than explained at close.
KPICDecreaseTime from variance to ownership
A digital coworker works inside the systems, data, policies and authorisations you already have. It is given the access a person in the same position would be given, and no more. Your auditors test it in the environment they already know.
What the role works inside
Enterprise applications
ERP, asset management, maintenance, safety and capital project systems.
Master data
Asset, equipment tag, work order, permit and capital project records.
Policies and controls
Business rules, thresholds, approval policies and compliance requirements.
Authorisations
Defined permissions for every action performed by the role.
Governance
Security, privacy, service levels, change governance and escalation.
The control model
Defined actions, inside the authority you set.
Prepares the case and hands the decision up.
Anything outside the authority the role holds.
Both sides put a signature on the same page before anything is built, and the ProxyN lead who signs is accountable for it in the way your sponsor is. Nothing in it gets agreed after the result is known.
What gets signed
Five lines both sides sign before anything is built. Every one is a fact about your operation, not a forecast about ours. On this chain the acceptance test is a replay against your own records: known past failures and overruns, and whether the role would have raised an earlier useful signal.
What happens after signing
The order the work runs in, one role at a time. The seventh step is the first step of the next loop.
What we need from you
Twelve months of history from the work order, permit and condition systems of record, read only
The written procedures for permits, deferral and capital approval, with the hard controls the role will work inside
The accountable person for the number, in the room for the first session, with your HSE lead beside them
Get started
Bring one workflow and the person accountable for it. In the first session we map the process, establish the baseline logic and tell you whether there is a number worth signing. If there is not, we will say so.
