Live Webinar: Catching Conveyor Degradation Before It Disrupts Throughput

• Thursday, May 28th, 2026

• 11:00 AM EDT (Atlanta) | 8:00 AM PDT (San Francisco) | 4:00 PM BST (London)

Stop reacting to "unexpected" failures. Start seeing what is actually happening before they occur.

Conveyor failures rarely begin with a breakdown.

They develop quietly - through friction, misalignment, bearing wear, and electrical stress - long before alarms fire or operations stop.

In most facilities, these early signals go undetected until they show up as:

• Throughput loss
• Jam escalation
• Operator callouts
  

By the time a problem is visible, the impact is already underway.

In this session, we’ll break down how conveyor degradation develops across high-throughput environments - and why traditional monitoring approaches consistently detect issues too late.

This session will be led by Luke (Director of Reliability & Maintenance Programs) and Sean Allen (Director of Product Management) - both former Amazon reliability leaders who have operated and scaled maintenance and reliability programs across large, automation-heavy networks.

Drawing on real-world experience across hundreds of sites, they’ll explore not just how failures develop - but why they’re often missed, including the operational, engineering, and program-level factors that contribute to late detection.

What You’ll Learn

• Why conveyor failures feel sudden - but aren’t
• Where degradation starts across belts, bearings, rollers, and drives - including how installation, maintenance practices, and component quality play a role
• Why inspections, SCADA, and alarms miss early-stage issues - and how “state monitoring” differs from degradation detection
• How program design decisions - from PM strategies to asset criticality - influence what gets detected (and what gets missed)
• How “non-critical” issues quietly erode throughput, OEE, and SLA performance
• What changes when teams detect degradation earlier - from reactive firefighting to controlled, planned intervention

Who Should Attend

This session is designed for leaders responsible for uptime, throughput, and reliability in automation-heavy environments:

• Operations leaders
• Reliability / RME teams
• Maintenance leaders
• Controls & automation teams

Speakers

• Luke - Director of Reliability & Maintenance Programs, MultiSensor AI

Former Amazon reliability leader responsible for scaling maintenance and reliability programs across large, high-throughput operations. Leads global implementations of early detection strategies across automation-heavy environments.

• Séan Allen - Director of Product Management, MultiSensor AI

Former Amazon Global MHE Reliability Manager, responsible for reliability strategy across 1,200+ sites and ~900,000 assets.
Now leads product strategy at MultiSensor AI, translating real-world failure patterns into scalable detection frameworks.