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This report came out from MaintainX today. 2,234 maintenance/ops leaders surveyed.

My biggest 4 takeaways:

1. 79% of teams still can’t reduce unplanned downtime. So what are all these systems actually fixing?
2. Parts and inventory management is the #1 lever for reducing downtime cost according to the people surveyed
3. PMs are “important,” but half of teams spend less than 40% of their time on planned maintenance.
4. According to MaintainX, AI is going mainstream, which I disagree because this sample size is small compared to the entire industrial base and I've talked to a lot of people that aren't even allowed to use basic tools like ChatGPT inside manufacturing plants.

Link: https://www.getmaintainx.com/state-of-industrial-maintenance-report?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=linkedin_thoughtleader_jake_soim26-DG&utm_content=soim2026

Any thoughts?