Supply & Demand Chain Executive covered the headline finding from MultiSensor AI's Uptime Economy: 2026 Report: 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 article notes 97% have increased automation over the past three years without a matching gain in their ability to maintain it.
It quotes CEO Asim Akram calling this "not a technology gap" but a planning one that surfaces as downtime later, and cites Director of Reliability Luke Grice-Lowe on why calendar-based inspections build missed warning signs into the schedule itself. The piece 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.sdcexec.com/software-technology/automation/news/22974580/multisensor-ai-91-of-ecommerce-distribution-and-logistics-professionals-approved-automation-their-teams-were-not-ready-to-maintain