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$140.2 Billion and Counting: Why Your EAM System Is Now Your Most Important SGR Compliance Tool By: Bill Carrick The Number Every Transit Asset Manager Needs to Explain The FTA’s State of Good Repair National Backlog Analysis, released in January 2025, put the nation’s transit infrastructure repair deficit at $140.2 billion. That figure represents a […]

Right Part, Right Time, Right Cost: How AI Is Finally Solving MRO Inventory’s Decades-Old Balancing Act By: Bill Carrick Picture this: a turbine at a natural gas peaker plant trips offline on a humid July afternoon. The maintenance team identifies the culprit within the hour — a failed bearing on a critical cooling fan. The

8,116 Electric Buses. A New Asset Class No One Planned to Manage. By: Bill Carrick The Charging Infrastructure Blindspot As of July 2025, 8,116 full-size zero-emission buses had been funded, ordered, delivered, or put into service at transit agencies across the United States — a 16 percent increase year over year. Add nearly 1,400 smaller

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

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