

Most reliability teams find out about failures after they've already started affecting throughput. This webinar breaks down why periodic inspection and OEM alarms consistently miss early degradation on high-impact assets like sorters, conveyor spines, and MCC cabinets - and what a detection strategy built around actual failure timelines looks like in practice. Attendees will leave with a framework for diagnosing where their own detection gaps are widest.
The importance of understanding asset criticality
Understanding pitfalls of Detection Latency – and how to close that gap
The benefits of being targeted and deliberate in your reliability strategy

With experience in Amazon’s Reliability and Maintenance Engineering (RME) organization, Luke is a reliability leader and speaker specializing in condition monitoring, maintenance strategy, and reliability at scale. Drawing on firsthand experience in highly automated, high-volume operations, they help organizations improve uptime, strengthen asset health, and build more resilient maintenance programs.
Their expertise focuses on closing the failure visibility gap, applying condition-based maintenance across large asset fleets, and connecting maintenance strategy, asset data, and operational priorities to drive measurable business results. Passionate about helping organizations move beyond reactive maintenance, Luke shares practical strategies for improving asset availability, reliability culture, and maintenance execution in complex logistics and fulfillment environments.
Through speaking engagements and industry leadership, they help operations and reliability teams transform maintenance from a cost center into a competitive advantage.

Bob Francis has over 25 years in the reliability, maintenance, and asset performance fields and joined the staff of RelaibilityWeb.com as a Sr Reliability Leader after having held key executive roles with leading software providers and prominent research firms focused on industrial technology and digital transformation. Bob's primary responsibility is leading the Industrial Trends and Insights Research Program, but has been an integral part of the Reliabilityweb.com community from its early days as part of the Reliability Leadership Institute (RLI) and as a founding member of The Association for Asset Management Professionals (AMP). Before joining Reliabilityweb.com, he served as a Research Analyst and Advisor at LNS Research. His academic credentials include an MBA from LeTourneau University with concentrations in Marketing and Management and executive education in Business Analytics and Big Data from Harvard Business School. Outside of work in industrial software, Bob is a frequent guest lecturer on business, leadership, and communications at Grand Canyon University. Bob has also lectured at the University of Tennessee and the Texas A&M Mays School of Business.