Field-built maintenance & reliability tools from 30 years on the tools. Red Seal journeyman millwright, author of Wrench Time and Design Maintenance.
Get the books ↓ Read the teardownsTwo books from thirty years on the tools — paperback and Kindle on Amazon.
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.
Get it on AmazonA 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.
Get it on AmazonAlso by Ryan: Where the Money Leaves, for the people who sign the cheques, and The Replaceable Factory, for the people building the next plant. Both at ryanmcintosh.ca →
Something broke. What actually failed, what the failure mode was underneath it, and the fix I'd propose.
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.
Read the teardown →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 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.
Get it freeStop 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 — $49Get 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 — $29Modular preventive-maintenance checklists by equipment type — ship one type, expand over time. Built to drop straight into your route.
Coming soonEfficiency audits, capital project design review, and an honest answer on whether AI will help. I come into the plant, find where the money actually leaves, and tell you straight what's worth fixing. Any plant, anywhere.
See the consulting side →Ryan McIntosh — Red Seal Journeyman Millwright with 30 years on the tools, across production, management and twelve years of R&D, in food and beverage, meat packing, pulp and paper, sawmills, OSB, plywood, oil field and mining. Author of Wrench Time, Design Maintenance, Where the Money Leaves and The Replaceable Factory, and the millwright behind The Last Millwright on YouTube.