Reliability & Maintenance Engineering · Nigeria & West Africa

Stop buying spare parts. Start buying uptime.

Axiom builds the condition monitoring routes, maintenance systems and defect-elimination discipline that move a plant from reactive repair to planned, predictable operation — delivered on site by engineers trained in world-class manufacturing environments.

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RC 9864639 · CAC Registered Abuja · Nationwide coverage Est. 2026
Time in service → Condition P–F interval P F Vibration · ultrasound Oil analysis Thermography Noise · heat
Every route, task interval and PM we write is anchored to the P–F interval of the failure mode it is meant to catch — not to a calendar someone inherited.

Service lines

Four disciplines, one reliability system

Most African plants do not have a maintenance problem — they have a defect-elimination problem, an information problem and a planning problem wearing maintenance overalls. We work on all three.

01 · Detect

Reliability & Condition Monitoring

Route-based condition monitoring that finds the defect months before the breakdown, with findings written as work orders a planner can actually schedule.

  • Route-based vibration analysis to ISO 20816 / ISO 10816-3
  • Bearing defect frequency analysis — BPFO, BPFI, BSF, FTF
  • Infrared thermography & ultrasound leak / bearing surveys
  • Oil analysis and lubrication strategy design
  • Precision laser alignment and field balancing
  • FMEA, RCM and asset criticality ranking
  • Root cause analysis — 5-Why, fault tree, failure forensics

02 · Organise

Maintenance Systems & CMMS

The asset register, work management discipline and KPI spine that turn maintenance activity into maintenance data — and data into decisions.

  • Asset hierarchy and taxonomy to ISO 14224
  • Functional location & equipment coding standards
  • PM optimisation and reusable task libraries
  • Spares criticality, min/max and BOM build-out
  • Planning & scheduling — weekly schedule compliance, wrench time
  • CMMS selection, implementation, data migration and clean-up
  • Reliability KPI dashboards and monthly review cadence

03 · Improve

Continuous Improvement & TPM

Operator-owned care and structured loss elimination, so the gains survive after our engineers demobilise.

  • Autonomous maintenance steps 1–3 and 5S deployment
  • OEE measurement and loss-tree analysis
  • Defect handling systems and defect-logging campaigns
  • SMED and changeover reduction
  • Kaizen and DMAIC problem-solving facilitation
  • Standard work, one-point lessons, craft skills matrices

04 · Protect

Process & Asset Integrity

Keeping static equipment, utilities and safety-critical assets inside their design envelope — the failures that shut a plant for weeks, not hours.

  • Risk-based inspection planning and thickness monitoring
  • Pipeline integrity, flow assurance and leak detection
  • Relief device and pressure equipment integrity programmes
  • Rotating equipment integrity — pumps, fans, compressors, gearboxes
  • Utilities reliability: steam, compressed air, chilled water, power
  • Compressed-air and energy loss audits
  • Commissioning, FAT/SAT support and new-asset care plans

How we engage

Diagnose, design, then stay until it holds

A three-stage engagement. Each stage ends with a deliverable you own outright — no dependency on us to read your own plant.

STAGE 01

Reliability diagnostic

On-site assessment of maintenance maturity across work management, CM coverage, PM quality, spares, skills and data integrity. You receive a scored gap analysis with the ranked few actions that carry most of the downtime.

2–3 weeks · fixed fee

STAGE 02

Strategy & roadmap

Criticality-ranked asset register, failure-mode-driven task libraries, CM route design, KPI baseline and a costed 6–12 month roadmap with owners, milestones and the business case behind each move.

4–8 weeks · project

STAGE 03

Execution & embedment

Embedded or visiting engineers run the routes, chair the reliability review, close out RCAs and train your technicians and planners to the point of handover — with remote analysis support between site visits.

6–24 months · retainer

Outcomes

The numbers we are accountable for

We baseline these in Stage 01 and report them monthly. Targets are agreed with your leadership before work starts, so performance is never a matter of opinion.

MetricWhat it tells youDirection
Unplanned downtimeHours lost to breakdowns you did not see coming↓ reduce
Emergency work sharePercentage of work orders raised and executed same-day↓ reduce
PM compliancePreventive tasks completed inside their window, in full↑ increase
Schedule complianceWhether the week you planned is the week you executed↑ increase
MTBF / MTTRHow long critical assets run, and how fast you restore them↑ / ↓
Wrench timeShare of a technician's shift spent with tools on the asset↑ increase
Spares carrying costCapital sitting in the store against stock-out risk↓ optimise

Where we work

Built for continuous-process plants

Our methods come from high-throughput manufacturing and logistics environments where a stopped line is measured in naira per minute.

FMCG & food processing Breweries & beverage Pulp, paper & tissue Cement & building materials Oil & gas — mid & downstream Pharmaceutical Packaging & plastics Power & utilities Ports, terminals & logistics Mining & quarrying

Leadership

Engineers who have run these systems, not just drawn them

Axiom's directors have built and sustained reliability programmes inside American manufacturing, energy and logistics operations, and across Nigerian oil, gas, FMCG and process industry. Three hold graduate degrees from West Virginia University and publish in predictive analytics for industrial equipment; three read engineering at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. The firm is built on that combination — Nigerian plant floors, and the modelling methods that now sit behind world-class maintenance.

Augustine Thomas Ojo

Augustine Thomas Ojo

Managing Director

Mechanical and reliability engineer. M.S. Mechanical Engineering, West Virginia University; B.Sc. Obafemi Awolowo University. Has built condition-based maintenance, vibration analysis and defect-elimination programmes across US paper manufacturing and large-scale logistics operations, following earlier field experience in Nigerian oil, gas and process industry. Published researcher in predictive analytics for industrial equipment.

Ijiwole Solomon Ijiyinka

Ijiwole Solomon Ijiyinka

Director — Continuous Improvement

Chemical engineer. M.S. Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, West Virginia University, with graduate research in the optimal design and operation of integrated process plants; B.Sc. Chemical Engineering, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. Has led continuous improvement programmes inside two of America's largest FMCG manufacturing groups, covering OEE recovery, loss-tree analysis and operator-owned care. Leads Axiom's TPM and continuous improvement practice.

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Afeez Shittu

Director — Process & Asset Integrity

Chemical and petroleum engineer. M.S. West Virginia University; B.Sc. Chemical Engineering, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. Published researcher in AI and machine-learning proxy models for pipeline simulation, oil rate forecasting and reservoir characterisation, with work appearing in the SPE Journal and Annals of Marine Science. Leads Axiom's process and asset integrity practice — pipeline integrity, flow assurance, static equipment and predictive modelling of equipment performance.

Lawal Kolawole Yusuf

Lawal Kolawole Yusuf

Director — Operations

Electrical engineer. B.Eng. Electrical Engineering, University of Ilorin; NEBOSH International General Certificate. Over nine years in asset-intensive manufacturing and energy operations, built across Procter & Gamble, British American Tobacco, Coca-Cola and TotalEnergies, including six years in upstream oil and gas carrying day-to-day accountability for equipment availability. Anchors Axiom's delivery on the ground in Nigeria.

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Two to three weeks on your site. One scored gap analysis, one ranked action list, one honest conversation about what your downtime is actually costing you.

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Enquiries

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+234 901 986 1682

Registered office

Axiom Reliability Engineering Limited
31 Biltmore Estate, Lugbe
Abuja, FCT, Nigeria
RC 9864639

Coverage

Nigeria & West Africa on site.
Remote reliability analysis and CMMS support for clients worldwide.