Why achieving uptime depends on people and processes — and then technology

As a reliability professionals, I can’t tell you how many times over my career I’ve visited customer sites and have been shown boxes full of sensors, sitting in the corner of the maintenance managers office gathering dust. There’s a different story behind each one of these boxes, but usually it has similar plot points:
Leveraging Accurate, Actionable Data for Condition Monitoring Success!

Our team recently returned from IR/INFO — the world’s premier infrared thermography conference. The hotel was buzzing with consultants, independent thermographers, and reliability engineers.