International Maintenance Conference: The Speed of Reliability

International Maintenance Conference 2025: The Speed of Reliability

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AI for Enhanced Learning and Information Access

AI for Enhanced Learning and Information Access

Struggling to find the right SOP or company policy? This session explores how AI can be the solution. Learn to leverage AI to access critical information efficiently, bridging the gap between your team and your organization's knowledge base without laborious searches and straying from your standards.

Reliability Radio EP 335: STOP OVERBUYING PARTS, Jeremiah Woodford – Verusen AI (MRO Strategy)

Reliability Radio EP 335: STOP OVERBUYING PARTS, Jeremiah Woodford – Verusen AI (MRO Strategy)

Optimizing spares inventory is often a forgotten item. This session with Jeremiah Woodford of Verusen AI reveals how to leverage an organization's purchase history to identify the right MRO strategy. Learn how to use AI to solve the perennial problems of overbuying and poor tracking.

An “Unplanned” Succession Plan Journey – Ensuring Competency Development to Maintain Operational Excellence

An “Unplanned” Succession Plan Journey – Ensuring Competency Development to Maintain Operational Excellence

Faced with a leadership retirement and a new hire, the Salem and Beverly Water Supply Board had to act quickly to create a succession plan. This session shares their "aha moment" and the rigorous efforts they undertook to create a new hiring and onboarding process, ensuring smooth transitions and maintaining operational excellence.

Leveraging AI and Analytical Efficiency for Predictive Maintenance

Leveraging AI and Analytical Efficiency for Predictive Maintenance

Why do 80% of your machines fail prematurely? Dr. Jeremy Frank, CEO of KCF Technologies, reveals that it's not from normal wear and tear, but from "unusual" root causes. He shares a simple, three-part framework to stop simply predicting failures and start proactively eradicating them.

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Expanding on Reliability Myths and Pitfalls

Expanding on Reliability Myths and Pitfalls

Do you believe installing a CMMS and some IoT will solve all your reliability problems? Ron Moore debunks this myth, revealing that technology alone offers only limited improvement. Learn how foundational elements—like leadership, employee engagement, and a culture of operational excellence—are essential to leverage these tools for true, sustainable success.

Implementing a Corporate Maintenance Excellence Program

Implementing a Corporate Maintenance Excellence Program

Operating in an evolving economic environment, Haleon created a new Maintenance Excellence program to drive business value. Learn how a common foundation of best practices, coupled with detailed maturity assessments and site-specific action plans, led to positive initial results and is already realizing business value.

Deploying Successful AM Practices in Marine Operation

Deploying Successful AM Practices in Marine Operation

With an annual cost of $187k for time-based hawser replacement, Jizan terminal needed a new plan. This presentation demonstrates their successful shift to a condition-based reliability model, using residual strength testing and benchmarking. Learn how this new strategy revealed hawsers had 98% of their lifecycle remaining, leading to significant cost savings and reduced downtime.

NASA’s Space Environments Testing Management Office (SETMO) Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) Program Advancement

NASA’s Space Environments Testing Management Office (SETMO) Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) Program Advancement

NASA’s SETMO manages a portfolio of critical, Apollo-era test facilities that are beyond their design life. This presentation details how SETMO is advancing maintenance practices with a strategic RCM approach to increase safety, decrease costs, and improve reliability—all vital for sustaining the Agency’s mission-critical infrastructure.

Implementing FRACAS to Improve Readiness and Prognostic Health Management at NAVAIR

Implementing FRACAS to Improve Readiness and Prognostic Health Management at NAVAIR

The Navy's C-FRACAS+ tool is enhancing operational readiness across 30 aircraft platforms. This presentation describes how this tool automatically scores maintenance actions with 95% accuracy, allowing R&M analysts to focus on the most relevant issues and drive process improvement for prognostic health monitoring.

Approaching Culture Change with Asset Management Fundamentals

Approaching Culture Change with Asset Management Fundamentals

Culture change can seem overwhelming. This session presents an effective approach: tackling it with asset management fundamentals. Discover how to use foundational principles as a catalyst for a broader cultural shift, transforming your organization's mindset and driving operational excellence from the ground up.

A Tech Company with a Real Estate Problem - Aligning Data with Metrics That Matter

A Tech Company with a Real Estate Problem - Aligning Data with Metrics That Matter

As a commercial real estate organization, our goal is to enable our clients. This presentation details how we deliver a Reliability & Asset Management solution by aligning our processes with each client’s unique organizational objectives. Discover how an adaptable, data-driven approach creates a successful partnership and provides value through data.

Closing the Skill Gap Silver Tsunami from Grey Hair Retirements

Closing the Skill Gap Silver Tsunami from Grey Hair Retirements

The "Silver Tsunami" of retiring baby boomers is creating a massive skills gap. Dr. Hoffower will review multi-pronged strategies to combat this, including how to partner with educational institutions, leverage state and federal programs, and utilize in-house training, IoT, and AI to close the labor shortage.

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

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.

Transforming Manufacturing Networks: Bristol Myers Squibb's Standardized REx Maturity Assessment Program Enhances Efficiency & Best Practice Sharing

Transforming Manufacturing Networks: Bristol Myers Squibb's Standardized REx Maturity Assessment Program Enhances Efficiency & Best Practice Sharing

Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) implemented its REx Maturity Program to enhance reliability across its manufacturing network. Learn how a harmonized approach, supported by standardized development plans, structured mentoring, and collaborative networking, enabled BMS to enhance efficiency, mitigate business risks, and foster a culture of best practices.

Digitizing Predictive Maintenance: A Practical Approach

Digitizing Predictive Maintenance: A Practical Approach

What's the difference between digitization and true digital transformation? This presentation helps reliability teams understand how to make the shift. Learn how to set up strong systems for smooth tech changes, foster teamwork, and identify areas where technology can improve your work and help your business adapt faster.

Our Reliability Journey to the Best Overall Program

Our Reliability Journey to the Best Overall Program

Learn the secrets behind Campana Refinery's award-winning program. This session details how a disciplined management framework and a multi-year Digital Transformation Roadmap—including digital twins and machine learning—aligned objectives and drove a record low in unplanned capacity loss. Discover how their strategy led to top-quartile performance and earned them the Best Refinery in LATAM award.

The Origin and 50-Year History of Today's Best Practices, and What's Next? The Moral Imperative Facing Executives to Leverage This Legacy for Significantly Enhanced Shareholder Value

The Origin and 50-Year History of Today's Best Practices, and What's Next? The Moral Imperative Facing Executives to Leverage This Legacy for Significantly Enhanced Shareholder Value

Where did today’s best practices in maintenance come from? This presentation tells the remarkable story of early adopters in the 80s and 90s, whose trials and errors shaped our field. Hear what the presenter considers the moral imperative now facing top executives to enhance shareholder value.

Kerry's Heroic Journey of Reliability

Kerry's Heroic Journey of Reliability

Learn how Kerry's 1KPS initiative, rolled out across 30 sites in 17 countries, drove incredible results. Discover how this ALM program led to a 24% reduction in unplanned downtime, a 34% increase in MTBF, and over €3 million in savings from optimized spare parts management, all while advancing sustainability goals.

Revolutionizing Manufacturing Operations with Energy-Centered Maintenance

Revolutionizing Manufacturing Operations with Energy-Centered Maintenance

The future of manufacturing is more sustainable. This session introduces Energy Centered Maintenance (ECM), a holistic strategy that integrates energy efficiency with routine maintenance. Learn how this innovative approach reduces environmental footprints, lowers energy costs, and ensures production uptime, balancing operational goals with environmental stewardship.

Integrating Reliability Principles in the Design Stages of Water Resource Recovery Facilities

Integrating Reliability Principles in the Design Stages of Water Resource Recovery Facilities

This presentation showcases how a Reliability-Centered Design (RCD) approach transformed the creation of new wastewater treatment basins. Through a series of collaborative workshops, the client, design team, and contractor identified 95 opportunities for future O&M improvements, predicted high asset availability, and estimated lifetime costs, ensuring a reliable facility and a clear maintenance strategy from day one.