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Building a Resilient Foundation- Prioritizing Reliability and Team Wellbeing
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Building a Resilient Foundation- Prioritizing Reliability and Team Wellbeing

Feeling burned out, undervalued, or overwhelmed by the constant "glug" of interruptions? The solution isn't just better maintenance—it's a change in mindset. Learn the two simple keys that transform frustration into fulfillment, empower your team, and provide the "glug resistance" your organization needs to eliminate reactive chaos.

Challenging Change: A Five Phase Process and Tools to Accelerate, Measure, and Sustain Industrial Improvements
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Challenging Change: A Five Phase Process and Tools to Accelerate, Measure, and Sustain Industrial Improvements

As industrial environments experience a rapid pace of technological and workforce changes mixed with...

Creating a Roadmap of Work Execution for Reliability & Maintenance
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Creating a Roadmap of Work Execution for Reliability & Maintenance

Not sure where to begin with Work Execution Management? Michael Guns shows how to start with clarity, align leadership and end users, and use planning, scheduling, and data to make work flow. Learn the five W’s, roles and responsibilities, KPIs, and how a planner boosts productivity.

Failure to Launch: From Maintenance Fundamentals to Reliability 4.0
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Failure to Launch: From Maintenance Fundamentals to Reliability 4.0

In the age of AI and IIoT, why are businesses still highly reactive? This session reveals that the core issue is often a failure to master maintenance fundamentals. Learn how to address common gaps in work management to gain control of processes, reduce unplanned downtime, and free up hidden plant capacity.

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Three Steps to Grow Your Reliability Culture
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Three Steps to Grow Your Reliability Culture

Developing a reliability culture is a long, daunting journey. Join Pat Akins to learn why effective assessment of people, processes, and facilities is imperative. He shares a clear strategy for people development, how to use cost/benefit analysis for quick hits, and what produces the greatest, most sustainable results.

Testing the Effectiveness of Your Post-RCM Planned Maintenance Optimization
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Testing the Effectiveness of Your Post-RCM Planned Maintenance Optimization

An RCM analysis is a huge accomplishment, but how do you sustain the resulting PMO? Jim Carrel and Kathy Hurley discuss how Children's Hospital Colorado properly deployed and managed their PMO post-implementation, ensuring continuous improvement, testing, and adjustment.

Maintenance & Reliability Improvement Initiatives, Where To Start?
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Maintenance & Reliability Improvement Initiatives, Where To Start?

You can’t improve what you don’t understand. In this IMC session, John Ganaway from Jacobs explains how to start your maintenance and reliability improvement journey with clarity, authenticity, and action. Learn how small steps and real data drive big results.

Make it Visual: Unveiling Lean Strategies for Facility and Reliability Excellence
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Make it Visual: Unveiling Lean Strategies for Facility and Reliability Excellence

Lean works great in manufacturing, but how do you maximize its potential in maintenance? CBRE explores the real-world integration of Lean principles, including Kaizen, 5S, and Gemba walks, to optimize maintenance processes, reduce downtime, and drive efficiency gains in labs, offices, and manufacturing facilities.

Unlocking Industry Uptime - The HxGN EAM Advantage
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Unlocking Industry Uptime - The HxGN EAM Advantage

Minimizing downtime is non-negotiable. This session explores Industry Reliability, showcasing how HxGN EAM empowers organizations to proactively manage asset health, reduce maintenance costs, optimize resource allocation, and leverage data-driven insights for continuous improvement in your specific industry.

Airfield Lighting -Work Execution Management
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Airfield Lighting -Work Execution Management

The SEA Electrical team manages 157+ miles of cabling and over 8,000 lights. Learn how their journey toward Work Performance Optimization (WPO) built a strong asset management foundation, fostering a culture of continuous improvement that annually exceeds strict FAA standards with zero inspection discrepancies.

Prioritize Asset Care, Based on Dynamic Risk Calculation
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Prioritize Asset Care, Based on Dynamic Risk Calculation

Initial FMECA/RCM data quickly becomes outdated, leading to rising asset risk. This session introduces a methodology to keep your asset care strategy "live" by leveraging CMMS and asset health data to continuously evaluate current risk, highlighting where to focus resources for maximum return.

How to Baseline Your Craft Productivity (Wrench Time)
Work Execution Management

How to Baseline Your Craft Productivity (Wrench Time)

Struggling with the 30% productivity average? This session offers a practical methodology to establish your team's baseline without resorting to individual time studies. Learn how GEMBA exercises build trust, reveal the 8 wastes in your workflow, and provide the visibility needed to drive defect elimination and improve planning.

National Ignition Facility - Striving for Reliability Excellence through Training, Mentoring & Culture
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National Ignition Facility - Striving for Reliability Excellence through Training, Mentoring & Culture

Achieving fusion ignition was fueled by reliability excellence. Learn how the National Ignition Facility (NIF) invested in its people, implemented competency-based learning (CBL), and reinforced reliability leadership (LER) and culture to propel its program forward and integrate the next generation workforce.

Beyond Project Completion: Fostering Organizational Resilience through Operational Readiness Palm Beach County Water Utilities Department Approach
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Beyond Project Completion: Fostering Organizational Resilience through Operational Readiness Palm Beach County Water Utilities Department Approach

Project completion is not enough. This session explores operational readiness (O&M Ready), a critical phase that bridges project delivery and sustained excellence. Learn from Palm Beach County Water Utilities Department how data, from the perspective of technicians to senior leaders, is used to ensure assets and systems are prepared to perform from day one.

Our Reliability Journey: Next Steps in the Quest for Continuous Improvement
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Our Reliability Journey: Next Steps in the Quest for Continuous Improvement

We will discuss plans that will help others just starting their journey and our next steps.

A Pragmatic Approach to Improving Maintenance Performance Based on Maintenance Value
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A Pragmatic Approach to Improving Maintenance Performance Based on Maintenance Value

It will explore how traditional maintenance improvement programs tend to only focus on one component

TAKEAWAY: How to get started with improvements

Best Year Ever!
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Best Year Ever!

Is the best yet to come? One company realizes that their best can be better in this Tales from the Shop narrative. See what happens after they implement continuous improvement processes.

Data Analytics, Machine Learning and Root Cause Analysis — A Practical Path to Continuous Improvement
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Data Analytics, Machine Learning and Root Cause Analysis — A Practical Path to Continuous Improvement

Continuous improvement is a key theme in many operating plants, and a lot of money is often spent to understand the key gaps in facilities to help optimize maintenance and/or operational goals, with the ultimate intent being the production of a commodity in the most cost-effective, safe, and reliable way.

What is Reliability Leadership?
Leadership for Reliability

What is Reliability Leadership?

Why do 70% of a la carte reliability programs fail? Terrence O'Hanlon reveals the missing metric: culture. Learn why performance comes from culture, and how to use the "Trim Tab" of leadership and a Declaration of Reliability to empower every employee and avoid the tyranny of failure.

Leading Reliability Improvement Like a Rock Star
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Leading Reliability Improvement Like a Rock Star

Did you know that 80 percent of efforts to improve asset performance fail? They either fail to achieve the desired objectives as stated in the initial business case or they fail by exceeding the time and cost to make them worthwhile financially.

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