NASHVILLE, TN — MaximoWorld 2026, the largest independent conference for IBM Maximo users, comes to Nashville at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center August 17–20. The event brings together reliability, maintenance, and asset management professionals from 27 different counties for four days of education, certification, and networking focused on getting more value from Maximo and the broader Maximo Application Suite (MAS).
In the late 1990s, handing your entire IT infrastructure to an outside vendor sounded reckless. Why would a Fortune 500 company give away its technology backbone? The answer was simple. Technology wasn't their core business. IBM Global Services, EDS, and Accenture proved enterprises could shed the operational burden of IT and get better service from specialists who did nothing else. By the early 2000s the argument was over. TCS, Infosys, and Wipro scaled fast after Y2K, proving even mission-critical work could sit outside if governance and metrics held up.
On Reliability Radio, Brendon Russ talks with Joe Lee of Aidentyx about moving beyond AI hype and applying AI to real maintenance challenges. Learn how AI-powered analytics, workflow automation, knowledge management, and root cause analysis can help reliability teams reduce repair times and improve operational performance.
AUSTIN, Texas (Aug. 11, 2026) – Global automation leader Emerson today announced PACEdge™ version 3.0, the latest advancement to its IIoT enablement software platform, helping to bring AI capabilities and frictionless application deployment to edge devices. Enhancements to the PACEdge platform empower teams in life sciences, oil and gas, packaging, food and beverage and many other industries to more intuitively secure, deploy and standardize edge applications to drive the most efficiency and productivity from their operations.
Most articles about IoT-enabled maintenance focus on the win: a sensor catches a failure early, downtime gets avoided, everyone’s happy. Fewer people write about what a plant looks like eighteen months in, after the dashboards have filled up and technicians have quietly started ignoring half the alerts on them.
It’s worth talking about, because it’s common, and because it’s avoidable.
On Industry Trends & Insights, Bob Francis speaks with Ben Dutro of California Water Service and Tacoma Zach of Mentor APM about solving one of asset management’s biggest challenges: poor asset data. Learn how AI-enabled data collection, condition assessments, thermography, and Maximo integration are helping utilities improve reliability, planning, and decision-making.
3rd August 2026, London, UK - Nineteen Group announces the acquisition of Space-Comm Expo Europe, an annual exhibition and conference for the global space community, from Lunar Ridge Ventures. The deal marks a significant investment in one of the world's most strategically important growth sectors.
When reliability, maintenance and asset management professionals gather at the Gaylord Opryland in Nashville this August 17–20, they won't just be trading notes with peers — they'll be learning directly from the people running some of the most complex, high-stakes operations on the planet. This year's MaximoWorld speaker roster spans space exploration, national defense, global finance, healthcare systems, and the fast-food counter down the street, proof that asset reliability is a universal language.
PARK RIDGE, Illinois, USA (July 28, 2026) – The Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (STLE) — the premier technical society serving the needs of the tribology and lubrication engineering business sector — is pleased to announce the release of its new free digital special report, Building the Foundation for Artificial Intelligence in Tribology.
What happens when AI moves beyond predictions and starts reshaping how reliability teams work? At TRC 2026, C3 AI’s Graham Provo shares how AI-driven anomaly detection, workflow automation, and asset performance insights are helping organizations turn data into faster, smarter maintenance decisions.
Bringing new assets online is about more than loading records into a CMMS. In this Maximo World webinar, Bob Francis and Ed Stanek explore how asset onboarding, data quality, criticality analysis, spare parts planning, and reliability strategies can determine operational success for years to come.