May 2026

Your Storeroom Is Sitting on a Gold Mine: The Repairable Spares Management Playbook for 2026 By: Bill Carrick The Purchase Order Nobody Should Have Sent A reliability engineer at a mid-sized paper mill places an urgent purchase order for a $14,000 DC motor drive. The part is flagged critical — production goes down without it. […]

The October 2026 TAM Deadline Is Four Months Away: What Every Transit Asset Manager Must Do Right Now By: Bill Carrick Four months. That is all the time standing between every U.S. transit agency and a hard federal compliance deadline that most operations directors are not treating with nearly enough urgency. The Federal Transit Administration

Primer: Risk Analysis Functionality in HxGN EAM By: Chris Kepner In HxGN EAM, Risk Analysis is one of the RCM analysis structures available for assets, systems, positions, and locations. It extends Risk Assessment by adding failure modes, which makes it the preferred option when the organization needs to trace risk down to specific failure mechanisms

PM Forecasting: How to Stay Ahead of Maintenance Demands By: Urooj Hussain   In the fast-paced transport and logistics sector, an out-of-service vehicle is a broken promise to a customer. To maintain high uptime, fleet managers must move beyond day-to-day scheduling and embrace long-term strategic planning. Preventive Maintenance (PM) forecasting allows transport organizations to look

Permitting and Lockout/Tagout (LOTO): Ensuring Safe Operations in Octave Attune EAM By: Urooj Hussain   In the high-stakes world of transit operations, maintenance is not merely a task of technical restoration but a rigorous exercise in risk mitigation. Transit agencies are continuously confronted with stringent HSE (Health, Safety, and Environmental) regulations mandated by global and

The AI Boom Is Stealing Your Maintenance Workforce — And the Clock Is Running Out By: Bill Carrick   The same technology wave your organization is racing to adopt is draining the skilled trades pipeline your plant floor depends on. Here is how operations leaders are responding.   Your best HVAC technician just received a