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Many reliability professionals have encountered a frustrating situation. A vibration alarm appears on a critical machine, maintenance personnel begin investigating a potential fault, and days later the machine is found to be healthy. The elevated readings were caused not by equipment degradation but by changing operating conditions. The data was correct. The diagnosis was not.

Manufacturing is being rebuilt at record pace, with more than a trillion dollars committed to new factories, yet the skilled people needed to run them are in increasingly short supply. Deloitte and the Manufacturing Institute project that 2.1 million manufacturing jobs will go unfilled by 2030, at a cost of around a trillion dollars in lost output.

Back in 2022, Brightly Software (then known as Dude Solutions) became part of Siemens. Since then, we've operated as "a Siemens company" while continuing to build on more than 25 years of experience helping thousands of organizations reduce costs, improve decision-making, and maximize asset resilience. Today, we're taking the next step in that journey by officially becoming Siemens Asset Management Software. At first glance, a second brand change in four years might seem unexpected.

As enterprises move beyond AI experimentation, the next challenge is operationalizing AI. How to apply intelligence where work happens, connect insight to action, coordinate execution across teams and systems and do it all with the trust and control required for mission-critical environments. For asset-intensive organizations, that operating model comes to life in the domain of physical asset operations.

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.

July 09, 2026 – IFS, the global leader in Industrial AI, today announced an agreement with Chelsea Football Club, to make Chelsea a trailblazer in the use of AI within their operations, setting a new benchmark and innovative approach for a Premier League football club. This agreement follows on from February’s announcement of the multi-year global partnership between IFS and Chelsea Football Club.

SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Sedin Technologies has completed the migration of enterprise asset management operations for one of Asia's largest integrated resort operators onto IBM Maximo Application Suite (MAS) SaaS. The project spanned five properties, touched more than 3,000 active users, and was executed with six hours of planned downtime and no disruption to live casino, hotel, or convention operations.

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.

[KNOXVILLE,TN]– [January27,2026]– RDI Technologies, the global leader in vision-based motion analysis, todayannounced the launch of its new flagship product platform, the IrisaiOne™. As the next-generation successor to the IrisM and Iris MX, the Iris ai One™ is the world’s first all-in-one solution to combine a new camera hardware, the IrisMA™, with AI-driven insights and accelerometer precision.

Rueil-Malmaison, France — June 30th, 2026 — Schneider Electric, a global leader in energy management and automation, today announces that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of Cognite Holding B.V. (“Cognite”), a leading provider of industrial data and AI software, in an all cash transaction valued at $3.1 billion.