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The Companies Taking the Stage at MaximoWorld 2026

When reliability, maintenance and asset management professionals gather at the Gaylord Opryland in Nashville this August 17–20, they won't just be trading notes with peers — they'll be learning directly from the people running some of the most complex, high-stakes operations on the planet. This year's MaximoWorld speaker roster spans space exploration, national defense, global finance, healthcare systems, and the fast-food counter down the street, proof that asset reliability is a universal language.

Solving the “One Failure Away” Problem in High-Throughput Distribution and Parcel Operations

Modern distribution centers, parcel hubs, and airport baggage operations have become highly automated and highly interdependent. That interdependence is a double-edged sword: it drives efficiency, but it also means a single failed asset—a conveyor, a sorter, a control cabinet—can bring an entire operation to a halt. Product backs up behind the failure point, downstream teams run out of work, and in a 24/7 environment, lost throughput isn't recovered later. It's simply gone.

Mechanical Seals: Small Components, Major Consequences for Pump Reliability and Process Safety

Mechanical seals are often small compared with the pump, driver, coupling, baseplate, piping system, or control system. Yet anyone who has spent time around rotating equipment knows that seals can have a much larger impact than their size suggests. A mechanical seal is not just a wear part. It is a containment device, a reliability component, an emissions-control device, and in many services, a critical safety barrier. At its simplest, a mechanical seal contains process fluid where a rotating shaft passes through a stationary casing. In real plant operation, that simple function becomes extremely important. A seal may be the only component preventing a hydrocarbon, toxic fluid, hot liquid, corrosive chemical, or environmentally sensitive product from leaking to atmosphere.

From Connected Assets to Operational Decisions: Lessons Learned from Global Industrial IoT Deployments

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technologies continue to be deployed across industries to improve asset visibility, support predictive maintenance initiatives, and enhance reliability performance. Over the past several years, I have been involved in deploying connected asset technologies across large industrial fleets operating in North America, South America, Asia, and the Middle East.

Data Utilization in Applied Reliability Engineering

In today’s technological era, data science is playing a critical role for making decisions and supporting management and engineers to achieve the optimal solutions based on technical and financial analysis. The data can be defined as facts or numbers that is usually collected, analyzed and utilized to make useful decisions. On the other hand, information is knowledge that is obtained from data through analysis and studies. With newly developed high tech and IT solutions such as IR4.0, IoT and other applications, data is coming more important and useful in reliability engineering applications and science.

How SAP Maintenance and Reliability Teams can Make Their Business Value Visible

Talk to a maintenance lead at any enterprise and the same theme comes up: they know their team generates real value, but they struggle to make it visible in numbers the CFO trusts. The operational story the data tells is not what actually happens on site. Notifications come in half-filled, time bookings get rounded to the hour, schedules live in Excel and reconcile to SAP once a week, and downtime is not assigned to the correct entity. That gap between reality and SAP (the world's most popular EAM platform) is what makes maintenance look like a cost line in the budget even when it is carrying revenue, reliability, and labor productivity.

Water Industry Reliability Forum: Building Resilience in Water Utilities

Resilience is easy to talk about and hard to deliver. For water and wastewater utilities, it means sustaining safe, reliable service despite aging assets, workforce transitions, regulatory pressure, and increasing operational risk. That is exactly what the Water Industry Reliability Forum set out to unpack in a practical way during the Reliability Conference, in a full-day workshop co-hosted in collaboration with MaxGrip and Reliabilityweb. This is a recap of those sessions and discussions with the audience.

Closed Loop Asset Performance Management Turning Insights into Reliability Outcomes

Asset-intensive organizations continue to be under increasing pressure to improve reliability, reduce operating costs, extend asset life, and make better use of capital. Utilities are modernizing grids, oil and gas companies are managing large, geographically spread assets while dealing with ageing infrastructure and ongoing geopolitical tensions, manufacturers are protecting production capacity, and data centers are becoming a critical asset class requiring high availability. In response, organizations have invested over time in EAM, GIS, SCADA, historians, sensors, mobility, analytics, and digital platforms.

After the Lockout: The Verification Steps That Decide Whether the Procedure Worked

Most failures in lockout/tagout procedures are not where reliability teams expect to find them. The dangerous moment is not the application of energy isolation. It's the return to service.

This is the half of the procedure that gets less attention in training, less rigour in execution, and almost no scrutiny in audits. The lockbox came off. The work was completed. The line was restarted. As far as most paperwork is concerned, the procedure worked. The trouble is that paperwork rarely captures what happened in the last few minutes.