Standards & Practice
ISO 55001:2024 moves asset decisions closer to operating evidence
The second edition strengthens the connection between objectives, decision-making, data, risk, opportunity, planning, performance evaluation, and improvement.
Newsroom
Maintenance, asset, and reliability intelligence
Reporting on standards, systems, work practices, provider changes, and reliability decisions across physical operations.
Standards & Practice
ISO 55013 makes maintenance data a governed asset—not an implementation afterthought
The new guidance puts ownership, quality, fitness, access, use, and lifecycle management around the data that supports asset decisions.
Reliability Engineering
SAE JA1011's 2024 revision keeps RCM a process claim—not a software label
The current recommended practice defines evaluation criteria for processes claiming to be reliability-centered maintenance.
Reliability Engineering
ISO 17359 keeps predictive maintenance grounded in a monitoring program
General condition-monitoring guidance starts with assets, failure context, measurement, assessment, diagnosis, action, and review—not with an algorithm demo.
Research
ISO 14224 gives failure and maintenance data a common language
Equipment taxonomy, failure events, causes, consequences, maintenance actions, resources, and downtime need controlled definitions before cross-site reliability analysis is credible.
Standards & Practice
SMRP's five pillars test the maintenance system beyond work orders
Business management, process reliability, equipment reliability, organization and leadership, and work management form a wider operating model than CMMS feature coverage.
Work Management
DOE maintenance strategies show why one mode is not the program
Reactive, preventive, predictive, and reliability-centered approaches solve different problems and require a maintained mix grounded in asset consequence and evidence.
Standards & Practice
Mechanical-integrity records need more than recurring work orders
OSHA PSM ties covered equipment, procedures, training, inspection and test, accepted practices, deficiency correction, and quality assurance into one controlled program.
Market Moves
Siemens brings Brightly under the Asset Management Software name
The July 2026 change consolidates the acquired Brightly identity under Siemens while retaining product names such as Asset Essentials in the market record.
Product Intelligence
IBM Maximo Application Suite 9.0 reset the release baseline
The June 2024 general-availability record matters because buyers need to distinguish suite release, application version, deployment state, support, and current feature channel.
Market Moves
IFS-Copperleaf deal connects asset operations and investment—but not automatically
IFS completed the Copperleaf acquisition in August 2024, joining enterprise asset, service, and industrial operations with asset-investment planning under common ownership.
Research
Condition-monitoring buyers need an alert-to-work test
Augury, Tractian, AssetWatch, Infinite Uptime, and Nanoprecise all publish machine-health records; the buyer decision turns on data quality, diagnosis, intervention, workflow, and verified result.