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The RELIABILITY Conference® 2026

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International Maintenance Conference 2026

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Redefining Asset Performance Management

Asset Management

Asset Performance Management Defined

If you work for an asset intensive organization and your role involves ensuring value from assets, you are unlikely to organize the world by software applications as software marketing professionals or software analysts’ do in order to describe these applications and functions to chief information officers, IT leaders or other chief officers.

Bad Actor Program

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Bad Actor Program

Reliability engineering is about predicting failures and providing ground for decision-making related to preventive maintenance optimization (PMO), lifecycle costing, spare parts forecasting, and reliability, availability and maintainability (RAM) modeling. Different tools are available to the reliability engineer for such levels of predictions. The benefit of these tools comes from proper planning and management plans to cope with future issues.

85% of RCM Recommended Improvements Are Never Implemented: Is There a Better Solution?

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

85% of RCM Recommended Improvements Are Never Implemented: Is There a Better Solution?

It is disappointing when reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) studies are performed on a critical system, yet weeks roll on and then years go by without implementing the needed changes into the computerized maintenance management system (CMMS).

How the Quest for Better Pumps Came to (Almost) Nothing: Part 2

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How the Quest for Better Pumps Came to (Almost) Nothing: Part 2

Part 1 in the June/July 2019 Uptime issue closed with the experience-based statement that failure risk can escalate by certain specification practices, including some contained in API 610. Without going into the many possible reasons for bearing life reductions, the quest for better bearings in upgraded process pumps elicits several observations that should be considered when preparing a modern pump specification.

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Kepner-Tregoe and Sologic Form Root Cause Analysis Partnership

[PRINCETON, N.J. (PRWEB) JUNE 04, 2019] Kepner-Tregoe, Inc. (http://www.kepner-tregoe.com) and Sologic, LLC (http://www.sologic.com) have formed a partnership to offer Kepner-Tregoe (KT) problem solving techniques supported by Sologic’s Causelink^® software.

How the Quest for Better Pumps Came to (Almost) Nothing: Part 1

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How the Quest for Better Pumps Came to (Almost) Nothing: Part 1

Pumps are fluid machines that move liquids over short and/or long distances. They were invented well before the industrial revolution and even Archimedes tinkered with pumps, on or about 250 B.C., somewhere near the historic city of Siracusa in Sicily. Without pumps, modern process plants would not exist. But not all pumps are well constructed, well maintained, correctly installed, or properly operated. And while some pumps have stayed on-line without interruption for six years, others continue to experience random failures several times in the course of a year. Pump improvement can be both a career enhancer and a value-adding proposition, as this two-part article will show.

The Keys to Solving Fatigue: The Silent Killer

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The Keys to Solving Fatigue: The Silent Killer

Fatigue is a failure mode that every manufacturing plant will experience at some point and can become chronic if not solved. While understanding fatigue has advanced since its inception in the early 1800s, there are still some misunderstandings in manufacturing in solving these failures. A characteristic of fatigue failures is stress, which is typically below the yield strength of the material. This is what makes fatigue a silent killer.

RCM, PMO and FMEA: What Is the Difference?

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

RCM, PMO and FMEA: What Is the Difference?

The use of acronyms though helpful at times also creates confusion. This discussion will clarify the differences and the similarities in the terms RCM, PMO, and FMEA. Additionally, we will discuss the appropriate use of these methods.

From Grassroots to Company-Wide in Six Months: A Root Cause Analysis Journey

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From Grassroots to Company-Wide in Six Months: A Root Cause Analysis Journey

In early 2015 Root Cause Analysis was practiced in few of Weyerhaeuser's 33 Wood Products facilities, and lacked for consistent application and standards. The opportunity for change began at the annual leadership meeting after several plant managers and corporate leaders got a glimpse of the process that the Grande Prairie Mill was using and the discussion that ensued revealed an uneasiness with the current state.

Asset Risk-Based Assessments: A Simple Approach

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Asset Risk-Based Assessments: A Simple Approach

Examples will be given on both ends of the spectrum ranging from the most basic to more advanced tools so individuals attending the presentation can create an assessment which best suits their site's maturity level.

Understanding Failure

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Understanding Failure

We will show that in many cases, this insight can be provided by an analysis of relatively little bits of data, much of which, we are already collecting. How we invest our capital and how we make decisions needs to be driven by our understanding of this data.

Large Diameter Pipe Condition Assessments

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Large Diameter Pipe Condition Assessments

This presentation shall detail how Central Arizona Project plans for the inspection of pipelines, and our modern tools and methods of evaluation. Noteworthy in this presentation will be details on CAP's use of mobile tablets to capture condition data in a Geographic Information System database.

Mechanical Integrity Simplified

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Mechanical Integrity Simplified

It’s horrific to read about fires in refineries. Granted, process safety management (PSM) principles, with a greater emphasis on mechanical integrity (MI), have been embraced across the globe, greatly reducing the number of incidents. However, citations remain high, with the U.S. having the highest number of them. What’s the problem? A consistent implementation and application of MI. This article attempts to simplify the MI program, with the hope that organizations can achieve 100 percent mastery in avoiding incidents.

Design Out Maintenance (DOM) Strategy: Key to Minimize Breakdowns

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Design Out Maintenance (DOM) Strategy: Key to Minimize Breakdowns

In this presentation, the speakers will make recommendations for various strategic design improvement areas which can increase the lifespan of the equipment from maintenance component failure and system breakdown view point.

Is Your Maintenance Strategy Impacting the Arc Flash Severity at Your Facility

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Is Your Maintenance Strategy Impacting the Arc Flash Severity at Your Facility

The NFPA 70E provides the requirements for protecting employees when exposed to electrical hazards suck as shock and arc flash. However, is your company's maintenance practice actually elevating the severity of a potential arc flash event?

An Experiential Journey to Discover Winning Elements Required to Transform Manufacturing Enterprises

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An Experiential Journey to Discover Winning Elements Required to Transform Manufacturing Enterprises

Asset management has introduced a few key concepts which require a shift from focusing on initial investment to optimizing total cost of ownership (TCO). This is rooted in a risk-based and science-based approach to understanding the requirements of the assets throughout their useful life.