Bridging the gap between maintenance, finance, and sales

Frank Hogg, Engineering Problem Solver and Founder of Your Maintenance Buddy

Every site leaks money.
Compressed air, steam traps, dripping taps, and idle motors the signs are everywhere.

Engineers can spot the symptoms instantly, but proving the cost to a decision-maker is another story. The real challenge in maintenance isn’t identifying the problem, it’s proving the value of fixing it. That gap between “I know it’s waste” and “I can prove it” costs UK industry millions every year.

It’s not a lack of skill or awareness; it’s a lack of shared language between maintenance, finance, and sales. Engineers think in kilowatts and leaks. Finance teams think in payback and ROI. Suppliers think in performance claims and proposals. Without a bridge between those perspectives, good improvement ideas often stall before they start.

The Missing Link

When an engineer reports a leak, finance inevitably asks: “What’s it costing us?”
Without hard numbers, the answer is guesswork — and the project is deferred.

Suppliers and consultants face a similar barrier. They know their solutions save energy, but can’t always quantify the return quickly enough to justify the spend.

After more than two decades in maintenance and reliability engineering, I built a system to close that gap a digital toolkit that converts energy waste into clear financial proof. It instantly calculates the cost, ROI, payback, and carbon impact of leaks, idle assets, and running equipment across seven common waste types.

The goal is simple: to make energy efficiency measurable, reportable, and investable.

Three Tools with One Purpose

That idea evolved into a connected suite of three applications designed to help engineers, managers, finance teams and suppliers speak the same language.

• Your Maintenance Buddy turns shop-floor findings into professional, budget-ready reports showing cost, payback, and carbon impact without spreadsheets.
• Your Investment Buddy gives finance teams instant visibility on where savings are hiding, quantifying ROI before a penny is spent.
• Your Sales Buddy helps suppliers and consultants close deals faster with proposals that include live cost and carbon data turning technical claims into verified financial proof.

Together, these tools help organisations move from reactive maintenance to data-driven decision-making, where every fix can be justified with evidence.

Across industries, users typically identify £20,000–£100,000 in verified annual savings, with documented cases exceeding £600,000.

Why It Matters Now

With rising costs, energy volatility, and the Autumn Budget expected to tighten business reliefs, many facilities will be under pressure to do more with less.
For maintenance and FM teams, that means demonstrating tangible returns on every improvement project.

Every unproven leak represents lost margin and avoidable emissions. Converting those unseen losses into quantified savings helps protect budgets, reduce carbon, and strengthen the business case for proactive maintenance.

Maintenance can no longer be viewed purely as a cost centre. With the right data, it becomes a profit and sustainability driver.

Turning Insight into Action

Maintenance teams don’t need another dashboard; they need a translator a practical way to connect engineering data with financial decisions. That’s the role of the Your Maintenance Buddy suite: providing measurable proof that makes waste visible and action unavoidable.

If you can measure it, you can fund it.
Don’t let another leak go unproven.

For more information visit http://your-maintenance-buddy.com/, email Frank@Yourmaintenancebuddy.com or call 07947 250675.

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