# The Reactive Maintenance Gap ## The problem Renacore sells against LNG plants run critical rotating equipment — compressors, turbines, pumps, bearings, seals — where a single **unplanned shutdown costs millions of dollars per day**. Yet maintenance is still largely **reactive** or calendar-based: teams act after degradation is visible, not before. Data sits siloed across SCADA, historians, and CMMS, so the warning signs that *do* exist never get correlated in time. Renacore frames this as the **"cost of too late"** — the gap between when a failure becomes detectable in the data and when a human actually acts on it. Close that gap and you convert catastrophic unplanned downtime into scheduled, cheap intervention. ## Why this framing wins The pitch is deliberately *not* "spend less on maintenance." It's "avoid the seven-figure-per-day outage." That reframes the buyer from a maintenance budget owner to a risk owner — and puts the CFO and Plant Manager in the room. See [[Maintenance CapEx]]. ## Connection to the broader thesis This is the demand side of [[Predictive Maintenance in O&G]] — where 30–40% of O&G budgets go to maintenance, a bearing anomaly caught 18 days early prevents a ~$700K loss, and "the moat is in the data." Renacore is one company instantiating that opportunity in LNG specifically. ## Related - [[Renacore MOC]] - [[Renacore/Asset-Centric Intelligence Layer]] - [[Predictive Maintenance in O&G]] - [[Natural Gas Value Chain]]