How do you measure reliability?

There’s lots more than purchase price to consider when replacing pump parts. Can your operations afford the risk of simply buying on the cheap?

Building maintenance has always relied on data, but 2026 finds the industry at a crossroads between "AI hype" and "Industrial AI" reality. While marketing noise often conflates maintenance tools with general language models like ChatGPT or Gemini, true industrial systems require a different architecture focused on precision, not probability.

Even when a company has both the will and the money to spend, it is difficult to know where to start when considering the implementation of maintenance management systems. Probably the majority of smaller companies are still at this stage, which effectively means the majority of maintenance people. The prospect of developing suitable maintenance control strategies and policies from a standing start is daunting. There are many questions such as how much will it cost, where will the resources come from and how will we cope?

BIM for facility management enhances FM in many ways. This digital tool revolutionizes how projects are designed, built, and managed. This article delves into the transformative effects of BIM on facility management, spotlighting its advantages and other critical aspects.

An essential part of a complete business process for managing a maintenance storeroom is a robust and simple procedure for returning materials to stores. The components of this procedure should meet the following requirements: It must be simple, take into account that some parts that are issued from stores will be returned, ensure that returned parts are fit for service, and returned parts must be complete.

Deficiencies in the integrity of equipment data and difficulties in accessing this data are costing asset-intensive companies millions of dollars a year in equipment downtime and business inefficiencies. Waste in the work management processes appears in the form of extended searches for parts and materials; wasted effort due to missing, inaccurate or out-of-date equipment data; procurement errors; and an inability to easily access data from a reliable source. The result can be expensive to these organizations.

Have you heard of an automated kiosk? You won’t be late to any session, there will be no frustrations with seeking directions, and no getting lost in large facilities. You are in control. Your customer just had a great convention navigation experience.