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How do you identify bad actors among pumps, exchangers, or compressors before reliability KPIs deteriorate?
Please share some good leads.

That's an intelligent one!
There has to be a different approach to identify a bad actor, which is often not the equipment that failed catastrophically...
It is the one:
consuming disproportionate maintenance hours
requiring repeated interventions
creating process instability
generating nuisance alarms
forcing operators into workarounds
repeatedly approaching trip limits... before actual failure occurs.
A pump opened 4 times in 8 months for seal issues is already a bad actor even if availability still looks acceptable.
This is where the things should take a start.