April 2026

Your Spare Parts Strategy Is Bleeding You Dry: How Dirty MRO Data and Parts Inflation Are the Hidden Killers of Maintenance Performance By: Bill Carrick   Every maintenance leader knows the sinking feeling. A critical pump fails at 2 a.m., the technician pulls up the work order, identifies the replacement bearing — and then discovers […]

Your Predictive Maintenance Platform Generates 100,000 Alerts a Day. Your Team Reads 12. By: Bill Carrick   Last year, a mid-size automotive parts manufacturer in Ohio spent $1.8 million deploying IoT sensors across 340 production assets. Vibration monitors on every motor. Temperature probes on critical bearings. Acoustic sensors on compressors. The predictive maintenance platform went

The 18-Month Clock: Why Your Retiring Maintenance Workers’ Knowledge is Worth More Than Your Newest Sensor By: Bill Carrick   Maria has worked the compressor line at a Midwest chemical plant for 31 years. She can tell you—by sound alone—whether the centrifugal pump on Unit 4 is running 2% outside its normal vibration envelope. She

Two-Thirds of Maintenance Teams Plan to Adopt AI. Here Is Why Most Will Not. By: Bill Carrick   The gap between AI ambition and AI execution in enterprise asset management is not a technology problem. It is a data, culture, and platform readiness problem — and the cost of staying on the wrong side is

Stop Sending Humans to Look at Things: How Visual AI Is Transforming Asset Inspection By: Bill Carrick   AI-powered visual inspection now detects defects with 99% accuracy in under 100 milliseconds — while the human eye misses 20–30% on a busy production line. Here is what that means for inspection programs that still run on

From Predictive to Prescriptive Maintenance: The Next Evolution By: Bill Carrick   The technology has moved from forecasting failures to choosing the optimal response — and in some organizations, to acting without any human in the loop. Here is what that shift means for operations leaders who are still measuring success in alerts.   Your