Top March content: AI-driven maintenance, TEEP metrics, and energy challenges
March’s top-performing content highlights how industry is navigating the intersection of technology, reliability, and innovation. From Nestlé USA’s use of AI to streamline spare parts search and inventory visibility to applying OEE and TEEP to quantify hidden capacity, reliability is supported by digital tools combined with performance metrics. The Industrial Science Report explores how automotive manufacturers are leveraging data science to accelerate material and battery development.
Foundational disciplines are being reexamined under modern pressures. Maintenance planning and scheduling remains a cornerstone of reliability, but its impact is magnified when integrated with real-time data. Meanwhile, external forces—particularly grid instability—are increasingly intruding on plant performance, forcing reliability leaders to expand their scope. Together, this month’s top stories highlight how blending smart processes, advanced analytics, and practical reliability thinking is shaping the future of industrial performance.
Top feature stories for March 2026
Case study: How Nestlé USA used AI to improve spare parts search and inventory visibility across its network of factories
By applying an AI-powered tool to spare parts data, SAP search accuracy improved and teams could manage inventory more efficiently.
What is OEE & TEEP?
Understanding these two key metrics metrics is essential for identifying improvement opportunities and maximizing the potential of manufacturing assets.
The Industrial Science Report: Automotive manufacturing is reshaping material and battery development with data science
AI-driven material development and new additive manufacturing technology are accelerating new aluminum alloy, battery, and material processing innovations.
Do you know the purpose and principles of maintenance planning and scheduling?
Apply these 12 principles to position your team to maintain industrial assets instead of just repairing them when they break down.
Grid stability is now a plant reliability problem
Increasing blackouts put energy-intensive industries at risk, but brownouts are the real silent killer.