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Reliability Radio EP 370 - Joe Lee, Aidentyx

On Reliability Radio, Brendon Russ talks with Joe Lee of Aidentyx about moving beyond AI hype and applying AI to real maintenance challenges. Learn how AI-powered analytics, workflow automation, knowledge management, and root cause analysis can help reliability teams reduce repair times and improve operational performance.

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Reliability Radio EP 368 - Graham Provost, C3AI

What happens when AI moves beyond predictions and starts reshaping how reliability teams work? At TRC 2026, C3 AI’s Graham Provo shares how AI-driven anomaly detection, workflow automation, and asset performance insights are helping organizations turn data into faster, smarter maintenance decisions.

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Reliability Radio, EP 367 - Industry Trends and Insights, Malavika Tohani

On Industry Trends & Insights, Bob Francis speaks with Malavika Tohani of Verdantix about industrial AI adoption, data governance, workforce trust, and asset lifecycle management. Learn why organizations are focusing on scalable AI use cases, contextualized data, and reliability-driven digital transformation.

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Delivering Elevator Reliability In Healthcare

Elevators are a top problem in healthcare—costly, unreliable, and vendor-driven. Mike Bigelow (Seattle Children's Hospital) reveals how he used performance-based contracts (tying fees to MTBF) and dedicated mechanics to achieve a 3X improvement in mean time between failures (MTBF), driving resilience and massive cost savings.

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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.

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How to Use Hierarchy of Controls to Improve Solutions and Lower Risk

The Hierarchy of Controls is more than a safety tool. This session shows how to combine it with Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to gain a clearer understanding of incidents and develop a wider range of effective solution options for organizational risk mitigation.

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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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Beyond the Bellows: How One Root Cause Failure Analysis Sparked Cultural Transformation in Refinery Reliability

Sometimes, technical problems are symptoms of deeper cultural and operational issues. This article explores how a deep dive into recurring fluid catalytic cracker (FCC) expansion joint failures led to far-reaching insights, not just about metallurgy and maintenance, but about a refinery's decision-making, communications and reliability culture. It’s a case where the root cause wasn’t just in the metal, but in the mindset.

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Kepner-Tregoe Inc. Launches New Brand

Kepner-Tregoe Inc’s new brand image positions company as a bright voice in a world of change.

PRINCETON, N.J. – Kepner-Tregoe (KT), the global leader in Root Cause Analysis (RCA) System Excellence with a focus on problem solving and decision-making capabilities, officially announced the launch of its new corporate branding. The design is referred to as “KT World” and denotes the rich history and global dimension of this Princeton NJ-based company.

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Managing RCA in Organizations

This presentation is about how to deal with the wide scope of root cause analysis (RCA) in an organization, effective sharing of knowledge, avoiding potential repetition of events in other or similar areas, identifying potential hazards, building trust for reliability leaders in organization, achieving effectiveness in corrective actions implementations, and effectively using IT tools in RCA management.

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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.

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Putting the Fun Back in Functional Processes

TRC-2018 Learning Zone 30:15
by David Auton, C&W Services

Common approaches to maintenance improvement include Failure Mode Effects Analysis and Root Cause Analysis. Most improvement projects are considered as individual and isolated. Understanding how your maintenance organization operates in a complex system of people and machines with needs and desires will help in your maintenance planning approach. Why does fixing one problem result in finding more problems? Why do the solutions tend to become more and more complex? There are really only three responses to any root cause; understanding these responses and how to manage them will provide more control over the improvement program. This presentation is based on System Thinking approaches to problem-solving.

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Some Plain Talk About Nuts and Bolts: Part 1 of 2

When you look over the list of projects you’ve worked on in the last 20 or so years, it’s amazing how many involve fastener problems. Some are relatively easy to solve, especially where careless practices have resulted in fatigue failures. Other problems are much more sophisticated, such as aluminum rivets clamping aluminum sheet metal that failed from galvanic corrosion! In Part 1 of this series, a Q&A addresses some of the important points connected with common bolting practices.

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Reliability Radio EP 370 - Joe Lee, Aidentyx

Reliability Radio EP 368 - Graham Provost, C3AI

Reliability Radio, EP 367 - Industry Trends and Insights, Malavika Tohani

Delivering Elevator Reliability In Healthcare

Maintenance & Reliability Improvement Initiatives, Where To Start?

How to Use Hierarchy of Controls to Improve Solutions and Lower Risk

Leveraging AI and Analytical Efficiency for Predictive Maintenance

Beyond the Bellows: How One Root Cause Failure Analysis Sparked Cultural Transformation in Refinery Reliability

RCA, Start at the Beginning, Finish at the End

FMEA & RCA - The Cycle of Continuous Learning

Uptime Elements Root Cause Analysis

RCA: “Due To” or “With” the Virus

Kepner-Tregoe Inc. Launches New Brand

Managing RCA in Organizations

Kepner-Tregoe and Sologic Form Root Cause Analysis Partnership

The Keys to Solving Fatigue: The Silent Killer

Integrating Your Electrical Equipment into an Existing Reliability Program

Putting the Fun Back in Functional Processes

Some Plain Talk About Nuts and Bolts: Part 2 of 2

Some Plain Talk About Nuts and Bolts: Part 1 of 2