The correct answer is Lower costs and increased production . A reactive organization waits until assets fail and then pays the penalty through emergency labor, expedited parts, schedule interruption, collateral damage, poor wrench time, safety exposure, and production losses. Moving into a planned domain means work is identified earlier, scoped properly, prepared with parts and tools, scheduled with operations, and executed with fewer surprises. That normally reduces maintenance cost and improves production because planned work is cheaper, safer, faster, and less disruptive than emergency work. Option B is not the best answer because a planned domain should not normally increase cost as the mature outcome, even if there may be transition costs during implementation. Option C is also wrong because the purpose of planning is not to reduce production; it is to protect asset availability and reduce unplanned downtime. This is directly aligned with Work Execution Management, where many reliability strategies fail unless work is properly planned, scheduled, coordinated, and executed. Reliabilityweb describes WEM as the domain that enables reliability and asset management strategies through disciplined execution.