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Open Letter to Reliability, Maintenance, and Asset Management Professionals

Open Letter to Reliability, Maintenance, and Asset Management Professionals

As we step into 2026, let this new year ignite a powerful commitment to personal and professional growth. Embrace fresh learning opportunities to sharpen your skills and boost your career trajectory. By investing in yourself, you’ll become more valuable in your field, driving innovation and results while evolving into a more effective leader who inspires teams, navigates change with confidence, and leaves a lasting impact. Make 2026 the year you level up.

Take a Look at How Temperature and Lubrication Quality Impact Bearing Life
asset condition management

Take a Look at How Temperature and Lubrication Quality Impact Bearing Life

In the world of rotating machinery, bearing life is a critical factor in ensuring equipment reliability and minimizing downtime. One of the most widely used measures for predicting bearing life is L10 life, also called the basic rating life.

Bridging the Gap Between Maintenance Planning and Reliability Strategy
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Bridging the Gap Between Maintenance Planning and Reliability Strategy

Across many organizations, maintenance planning is still treated as a functional task rather than a strategic one. Too often, the planner is seen as an organizer of work orders, not as a contributor to asset reliability or long-term performance.

Year-End Review: Advancing Reliability Leadership and the Uptime® Elements Body of Knowledge

Year-End Review: Advancing Reliability Leadership and the Uptime® Elements Body of Knowledge

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.

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

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.

Strategic Deployment of Mechanical Maintenance Engineers in Process Industries
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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.

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

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 - Part 1
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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 - Part 1

Case Study, Part 1

This case study demonstrates how vibration and distributed control systems (DCS) process data can extend a soft foot defect to improve operations beyond mechanical reliability.

What a Maturing Condition Monitoring Program Really Looks Like
asset condition management

What a Maturing Condition Monitoring Program Really Looks Like

Not all condition monitoring programs are created equal. Some evolve by expanding coverage, sharpening insight, and empowering technicians to drive reliability. Others plateau, stuck in route-based routines while teams are stretched thinner than ever.The difference comes down to one choice: do you allow your program to plateau, or do you build it to mature?

Mastering Work Management for Reliability Excellence
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Mastering Work Management for Reliability Excellence

Although work management is a cornerstone of world-class maintenance and reliability programs, many organizations still struggle with reactive work, high costs, and uncontrolled backlogs. This article demystifies the six essential elements of work management, offering a practical, computerized maintenance management system-based road map aligned with the Society for Maintenance & Reliability Professionals (SMRP) Body of Knowledge.

Understanding the Role of Inflation and Interest Rates in Lifecycle Cost Analysis
asset management

Understanding the Role of Inflation and Interest Rates in Lifecycle Cost Analysis

With any piece of equipment, there’s a lifecycle cost (LCC), which is the total cost incurred over its entire lifespan, encompassing purchase, installation, operation, maintenance and disposal. Calculating LCC requires a systematic approach to identify and quantify all elements of the LCC equation.

Maintenance: From Necessary Expense to Added Value in the Industrial Era
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Maintenance: From Necessary Expense to Added Value in the Industrial Era

The history of industrial maintenance is closely linked to the evolution of industry itself. From its beginnings in the Industrial Revolution, when the need to repair and maintain nascent machinery led to the training of specialized technical personnel, to the present day, maintenance has gone through various stages and transformations.

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