Top Maintenance Mindset reads: Reliability, oil analysis, and risk in 2025
The Maintenance Mindset blog is where Plant Services goes deeper. Its editors and guest writers challenge assumptions, question accepted practices, and connect maintenance strategy to larger industrial and economic forces. In 2025, the most-read Maintenance Mindset stories tackled everything from the future of oil analysis and the role of automation to workforce credentials, trade policy pressures, and hard lessons drawn from high-profile infrastructure failures. This Top Five list reflects the conversations Plant Services members found most timely, provocative, and practical this year.
Top 5 Maintenance Mindset article in 2025
5. How industry is responding to Trump’s tariffs and the escalating trade war
3. 5 reliability and maintenance certifications you need to know about
2. Why oil analysis fails for most — but automation can change that
And the #1 Maintenance Mindset article for 2025:
It's the end of oil analysis as we know it … and I feel fine