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Industrial Transformation & AI: Unlocking Reliability for the Future

Jeremy Frank of KCF Technologies reveals why the industrial machine health revolution is stalling—and how to fix it. Discover why AI must elevate, not replace, workers to solve the trillion-dollar problem of reactive maintenance. Learn the three keys to success: collaboration, long-term vision, and versatility, to achieve a future of zero downtime and zero injuries.

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Strategic Deployment of Mechanical Maintenance Engineers in Process Industries

In process industries, such as chemicals, fertilizers and energy plants, effective maintenance management is critical for ensuring equipment reliability, operational continuity, and safety. This article proposes a data-driven framework for the scientific deployment of mechanical maintenance engineers, considering key operational variables, such as plant area, equipment type and criticality, preventive and corrective maintenance workloads, number of outsourced service interventions, purchase requisition (PR) workload, and permit management load.

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How Vibration and DCS Process Data Can Extend a Soft Foot Defect to Improve Operations Beyond Mechanical Reliability - Part 2

While Part 1 of the Case Study, By using vibration response to a soft foot defect with associated DCS Process Data to illustrate why improved operation practice is essential for Mechanical Reliability - Case Study, Part 1, provided a broad overview on the integration of both online vibration and DCS process data to identify a soft foot defect, Part 2 expands upon the technical aspects of the case study.

Accenture and Anthropic Launch Multi-Year Partnership to Drive Enterprise AI Innovation and Value Across Industries

Accenture and Anthropic launch Business Group, will train approximately 30,000 professionals, marking a major investment in talent, solutions, and go-to-market muscle to drive Claude adoption at scale
Accenture becomes a premier AI partner for coding with Claude Code; will make Claude Code available to tens of thousands of its developers
New joint offering for CIOs to measure value and scale AI-powered software development across organizations; Initial set of co-developed industry solutions to focus on regulated industries, such as financial services, life sciences, health, and public sector

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Industrial Generative AI RAP Talk

Join Fabrice Brion as he unveils the "Industrial Maintenance Autopilot," a revolutionary approach to integrating AI into reliability. Learn how bottom-up P-F curves, real-time data analytics, and augmented reality are moving the industry beyond simple data collection to automated decision-making and execution, ultimately enhancing safety and efficiency.

John Crane Signs Multi-Year Global Framework Agreement with a Leading International Energy Company to Enhance Reliability and Strengthen Operational Performance

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 9 December 2025 – John Crane, a global leader in rotating equipment solutions and a business of Smiths Group plc, has signed a major Global Framework Agreement (GFA) with a large international energy company, formalising a long-term partnership focused on improving equipment reliability, standardising performance across global operations and addressing critical challenges in seal management.

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How To Drive Value And Be Successful Long-term Using APM

Wayne Jurgensen, Senior Reliability Consultant at Honeywell, discusses how to drive long-term value and success using Asset Performance Management (APM).

reliability webinars

Data For Decision Making Industry Research And Insights

In this episode of Reliability Webinars on Reliability Web TV, host Bob Francis is joined by leading industry analysts Malavika Tahoni of Verdantix and Vivek Murugesan of LNS Research to discuss "Data for Decision Making".

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Industrial Transformation & AI: Unlocking Reliability for the Future

The Limits of Reliability: Why Technology Alone Can’t Fix Poor Design