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Specified vs. Delivered: Reliability Engineering Applies to Documentation Too

Every reliability engineer knows the component that fails in service because nobody checked it at receiving inspection. Power system studies belong on that list. A specification calls for power flow with voltage drop, short circuit and arc-flash analysis. A study group delivers a report, the report goes to the customer, and far more often than not it sits in the contract papers until something happens.

How Often Should You Carry Out Thermal Imaging Inspections? A Risk-Based Guide

Ask most facilities how often their electrical assets receive a thermal imaging inspection and the answer is annual. Ask why annual, and the answer is usually that it has always been annual, or that the insurer or an auditor expects to see a yearly certificate. Neither is an engineering answer. Annual-by-default is a calendar decision wearing an engineering costume, and on some assets it is too often, on the ones that matter most it is nowhere near often enough.

TwinThread Launches Anomaly Action Center, an AI-Powered Solution to Prioritize and Resolve Anomalies at Enterprise Scale

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Oct. 8, 2026 — Today, TwinThread—a global leader in Industrial AI—announced the release of Anomaly Action Center, an AI-powered solution designed to help operational teams prioritize and resolve critical anomalies across their equipment assets and process operations. Unlike conventional alerting systems that only signal when something is wrong, Anomaly Action Center delivers each anomaly with the context plant personnel need to act quickly and effectively.

From Predictive Insight to Controlled Work: Building the AI-Enabled Utility Asset Enterprise

Utilities are under pressure to deliver safe, reliable, affordable and lower-carbon services while managing ageing networks, capital programmes, workforce constraints, cyber exposure and increasingly complex operating conditions.

AI can help utilities detect weak signals, predict failure risk, prioritize interventions and improve planning. But a prediction does not create value by itself. Value appears only when the insight reaches an accountable operational decision, becomes safe and executable work, and produces an outcome that can be measured.

MultiSensor AI Launches Solar Reflection Analysis to Reduce False Thermal Alerts in Solar Monitoring

MultiSensor AI Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: MSAI) ("MultiSensor AI," "MSAI," or the "Company"), a pioneer in early threat detection and condition-based monitoring, today launched Solar Reflection Analysis. The new capability within MSAI's Solar Performance Monitoring helps reliability and maintenance teams at solar-equipped warehouses, distribution facilities, courier networks, data centers and other multi-site environments distinguish thermal alerts likely caused by sun reflection from events that may indicate an electrical or mechanical fault requiring investigation.

Why On-Site Reporting Is Transforming Thermal Imaging Inspections

The most valuable moment in an electrical thermal imaging survey is not when the image is captured. It is the moment a finding is raised while the panel is still open, the load is still on, and someone with authority is still on site. Miss that window and a finding that could have been actioned that afternoon becomes a line in a document that lands days later, competing for attention with everything else in an inbox.

MentorAPM adds thermal imaging to MentorLens® through Teledyne FLIR collaboration

MentorAPM, an end-to-end asset lifecycle and work management solutions provider and industry leader in AI-powered condition assessments, is expanding its asset intelligence capabilities with thermal imaging through a collaboration with Teledyne FLIR. The integration of the Flir iXX-Series with MentorLens adds thermal data to the condition assessment process, giving asset-intensive organizations another source of information to better understand physical assets and support maintenance, reliability and asset management decisions. The new capabilities will be showcased at the Society for Maintenance & Reliability Professionals (SMRP) annual conference, Sept. 28-Oct. 1 in Raleigh, NC.

Call for Papers Is Now Open for The RELIABILITY Conference 2027, Co-Located with Smart Manufacturing Week

BOSTON, MA — The Call for Papers for The RELIABILITY Conference (TRC) 2027 is now open. TRC 2027 will take place April 19–22, 2027, at Huntington Place in Detroit, Michigan, co-located within Smart Manufacturing Week.

Practitioners, reliability leaders, operations managers, and solution providers are invited to submit abstracts that share field-tested methods, measurable results, and practical strategies for improving asset performance, reducing downtime, and building safer, more sustainable workplaces.

Load Correction in Electrical Thermal Imaging: The Reading Most Surveys Skip

During a routine electrical thermal imaging survey, a distribution board read a maximum surface temperature of 36 degrees Celsius. On a route covering dozens of boards in a shift, a reading like that does not slow you down. It was cooler than the room on a warm day, no gradient worth annotating, no discoloured connection, nothing that earns a second look. If the thermal image were the whole story, that board would have been marked clean and I would have moved on.