Most failures do not begin with a breakdown.
They begin with a worn bearing, a loose connection at an MCC terminal, or a drive running a little hotter each week - long before an alarm fires or a line stops.
In most facilities, the first alert arrives when the problem has already shown up as:
The alert did not tell you something new. It told you what the floor already knew.
In this session hosted by Bob Francis, Luke Grice-Lowe breaks down detection latency - the time between when degradation starts and when someone or something notices it. They show why periodic inspection and OEM alarms consistently miss early degradation on sorters, conveyor spines, and MCC cabinets, and what a detection strategy built around the speed of your actual failure modes looks like.
This session is designed for leaders responsible for uptime, throughput, and reliability in automation-heavy environments:
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.
Sr Reliability Leader at Reliabilityweb.com with over 25 years in reliability, maintenance, and asset performance. He leads the Industrial Trends and Insights Research Program and is a founding member of AMP. Previously a Research Analyst and Advisor at LNS Research, he holds an MBA from LeTourneau University.