Utilities are under pressure to deliver safe, reliable, affordable and lower-carbon services while managing ageing networks, capital programmes, workforce constraints, cyber exposure and increasingly complex operating conditions.
AI can help utilities detect weak signals, predict failure risk, prioritize interventions and improve planning. But a prediction does not create value by itself. Value appears only when the insight reaches an accountable operational decision, becomes safe and executable work, and produces an outcome that can be measured.
MultiSensor AI Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: MSAI) ("MultiSensor AI," "MSAI," or the "Company"), a pioneer in early threat detection and condition-based monitoring, today launched Solar Reflection Analysis. The new capability within MSAI's Solar Performance Monitoring helps reliability and maintenance teams at solar-equipped warehouses, distribution facilities, courier networks, data centers and other multi-site environments distinguish thermal alerts likely caused by sun reflection from events that may indicate an electrical or mechanical fault requiring investigation.
Field service is often discussed as a scheduling or workforce-productivity challenge. Organizations invest in mobile applications, dispatch engines, route optimization and digital work orders expecting that faster coordination will automatically produce better outcomes.
The most valuable moment in an electrical thermal imaging survey is not when the image is captured. It is the moment a finding is raised while the panel is still open, the load is still on, and someone with authority is still on site. Miss that window and a finding that could have been actioned that afternoon becomes a line in a document that lands days later, competing for attention with everything else in an inbox.
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MentorAPM, an end-to-end asset lifecycle and work management solutions provider and industry leader in AI-powered condition assessments, is expanding its asset intelligence capabilities with thermal imaging through a collaboration with Teledyne FLIR. The integration of the Flir iXX-Series with MentorLens adds thermal data to the condition assessment process, giving asset-intensive organizations another source of information to better understand physical assets and support maintenance, reliability and asset management decisions. The new capabilities will be showcased at the Society for Maintenance & Reliability Professionals (SMRP) annual conference, Sept. 28-Oct. 1 in Raleigh, NC.
The "Data Collection Paradox" One of the most frequent complaints I hear from operator communities in industries ranging from oil and gas to power generation is simple but stinging: "I spend hours recording these readings, but nobody ever looks at them. Why am I doing this?"
Siemens today announced Meet at the Machine, a new initiative designed to bring together machine builders, software and automation technologies to accelerate innovation across the machine tool industry and help manufacturers achieve productivity faster.
BOSTON, MA — The Call for Papers for The RELIABILITY Conference (TRC) 2027 is now open. TRC 2027 will take place April 19–22, 2027, at Huntington Place in Detroit, Michigan, co-located within Smart Manufacturing Week.
Practitioners, reliability leaders, operations managers, and solution providers are invited to submit abstracts that share field-tested methods, measurable results, and practical strategies for improving asset performance, reducing downtime, and building safer, more sustainable workplaces.
During a routine electrical thermal imaging survey, a distribution board read a maximum surface temperature of 36 degrees Celsius. On a route covering dozens of boards in a shift, a reading like that does not slow you down. It was cooler than the room on a warm day, no gradient worth annotating, no discoloured connection, nothing that earns a second look. If the thermal image were the whole story, that board would have been marked clean and I would have moved on.
In high-volume logistics operations, failures rarely start as emergencies. A sorter drive that seizes at 2 a.m., a control cabinet that trips mid-shift, a conveyor that grinds to a halt during peak: none of these begin at the moment they happen. They start days or hours earlier, as small, detectable signals that nobody was watching for.
The acquisition is expected to solidify Naviam's position as the largest global IBM Maximo business partner. As part of the transaction, Bentley Systems will make a strategic equity investment in Naviam and join its Board of Directors, while Norwest will make a significant growth investment in the combined Naviam and Cohesive business. The partnership will also bring together Bentley Infrastructure Cloud, Naviam Cloud, and IBM Maximo to unlock greater value across the full asset lifecycle.
Registrations climb 23% year-over-year Reliabilityweb enters new chapter with Nineteen Group
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — MaximoWorld 2026, part of Reliabilityweb, the premier event for IBM Maximo and IBM Maximo Real Estate & Facilities (formerly TRIRIGA) users and the reliability, maintenance, and asset management community, concluded a successful four-day run in Nashville, Tennessee, August 17–20. The event drew more than 1,300 registrations, a 23% increase over the prior year.