Are you guilty of "Reliability Word Salad"? Jim Carrel joins us at TRC25 to explain why using buzzwords without understanding the fundamentals is hurting the industry. We discuss the real meaning of RCM, the importance of coachability, and why you should never give up on the journey to reliability excellence.
Nineteen Group, the international events and media organization, today announced the acquisition of Reliabilityweb, a highly respected global community dedicated to reliability engineering, maintenance excellence, and asset performance.
The acquisition marks a key milestone in Nineteen Group’s expansion in the United States and strengthens its growing footprint across the manufacturing sector. Reliabilityweb’s deep industry credibility, practitioner-led frameworks, and engaged global community complement Nineteen’s expertise in building and scaling high-impact events and experiences.
This year marked a deliberate shift from activity to architecture. Across conferences, training, community engagement, learning platforms, and publishing, the focus moved toward strengthening the systems that sustain reliability leadership at scale—not just events, but enduring capability.
What follows is a clear-eyed review of progress, outcomes, and direction.
A powerful talk revealing how culture—not just technology—drives true reliability. Through dramatic real-world stories, bottom‑up change, and human-centered leadership, this session uncovers what it really takes to build precision operations where nothing goes wrong.
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SEATTLE – DECEMBER 16, 2025 – Seeq, the global leader in industrial analytics, AI, and enterprise monitoring for industrial companies, today announced that it has been named a Front Runner within the inaugural Industrial AI: Advanced Analytics Solution Selection Matrix (SSM) by LNS Research. Seeq was recognized as a market leader for its category-leading product innovation, human-centered approach, partner-friendly architecture, and exceptional customer focus. LNS Research, a leading research and advisory firm for the world's largest industrial companies, evaluated seven key vendors within the rapidly evolving Advanced Analytics providers category of the Industrial AI: Advanced Analytics market. This category includes software applications that offer decision intelligence capabilities, primarily through pre-built out-of-the-box applications. These vendors provide data collection, analysis, machine learning modeling, and visualization functionalities as part of their application(s), and they support several industrial use case categories.
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.
Asset-intensive industries, such as oil and gas, power generation, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and utilities, rely heavily on complex physical assets. The reliability of these assets directly affects safety, productivity, cost and competitiveness.
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.
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 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
Engineered for uptime in marine, power, and heavy industry, the PiezoNode delivers continuous monitoring of critical assets even in extreme heat, high pressure and other harsh environments