Automated Warehouse covered findings from MultiSensor AI's Uptime Economy: 2026 Report, highlighting that 91% of surveyed reliability practitioners and VP-level leaders have approved automation their team wasn't fully prepared to maintain, with 49% saying it's happened more than once.
The piece quotes CEO Asim Akram describing this as "not a technology gap" but a planning one that surfaces as downtime years later.
The article also details the report's monitoring findings, noting only 10% of practitioners continuously monitor critical assets in real time, and cites Director of Reliability Luke Grice-Lowe on why calendar-based inspections build missed warning signs into the schedule itself. It closes on the financial stakes, noting 95% of VPs say a major downtime event would match or exceed their annual automation investment.
Read the full article here: https://www.automatedwarehouseonline.com/multisensor-finds-most-companies-implement-automation-without-proper-planning/
