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The Last Millwright
THE LAST MILLWRIGHT

They taught us how to fix machines. Nobody taught us how to fix systems.

Field-built maintenance & reliability tools from 30 years on the tools. Red Seal journeyman millwright, author of Wrench Time and Design Maintenance.

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The Books

Written for the floor, not the boardroom.

Two books from thirty years on the tools — paperback and Kindle on Amazon.

Wrench Time

Paperback & Kindle

A maintenance efficiency method for getting more done in less time. The Four Moves — MAP, ROUTE, STAGE, ZONE — for turning a paid shift into actual wrench time instead of walking, waiting, and hunting.

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Don't Do Maintenance. Design Maintenance.

Paperback & Kindle

A millwright's system for maintenance planning, shutdowns, and reliability. How to design the work so the plant stops breaking you — planning, scheduling, backlog, metrics, and shutdowns that end on time.

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Writing

Failure teardowns.

Something broke. What actually failed, what the failure mode was underneath it, and the fix I'd propose.

Latest

Nobody Blames the Torque Wrench

An AI coding agent wiped a live database during a declared code freeze, then told the owner the data was unrecoverable. It wasn't. The backups had been there the whole time — the instrument reading them was wrong.

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The Design Maintenance Toolkit

Tools that do the job, not the selling.

Spreadsheets and guides built by a millwright who has done the work — no subscriptions, no logins, no fluff. Buy it once, own it, run it.

The Bleeders List

Free

The fastest wins in any plant: the short list of failures that are quietly bleeding your maintenance hours, and how to spot them on your next walk-through. Start here.

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Reliability Matrix Builder

$49

Stop guessing which equipment deserves your maintenance hours. A 7-tab Excel criticality-scoring tool that ranks every asset on a defensible 1–5 scale — plus a quick-start guide.

Get it — $49

Wrench Time Field Kit

$29

Get eyes on the whole plant every day — and prove it with numbers. The field rollout of the Four Moves from the book: implementation guide + a 4-tab workbook.

Get it — $29

PM Checklist Library

Coming soon

Modular preventive-maintenance checklists by equipment type — ship one type, expand over time. Built to drop straight into your route.

Coming soon

The Spreadsheet CMMS

Coming soon

A full work-order and asset system in a spreadsheet. No monthly fee, no login, no vendor lock-in — the CMMS you actually own.

Coming soon
Need it done for you?

Run them yourself — or I'll come do it with your crew.

CMMS implementation, AI & SaaS audits, and local-AI workstation builds for plants that want the system standing before they are left to run it. Built to run yourself, or built alongside you — either way, you own it when I leave.

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Who's behind it

Ryan McIntosh — Red Seal Journeyman Millwright with 30 years across pulp mills, sawmills, and heavy industry in BC, the Yukon, and the oilfield. Author of Wrench Time and Design Maintenance, and the millwright behind The Last Millwright on YouTube.