The Aging Transformer Fleet: What the 40-Year Claim Really Says
Every grid-crisis story published this year leans on the same sentence: the average US transformer...
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Guides
Turnaround Cost Overrun Statistics: Tracing the 80% Claim
Walk into any turnaround readiness pitch and you’ll hear a version of the same statistic:...
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Does 80% of Downtime Come From 20% of Assets? Tracing the Claim
You’ve heard it in every reliability pitch deck, bad-actor program kickoff, and CMMS demo:...
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MRO and Spare Parts Inventory Statistics: Stockouts, Accuracy, Costs
The short version: We could not locate any government agency or standards body that publishes MRO...
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Arc Flash Statistics: Incident Frequency, Injury Data, and Costs
TL;DR: No single database counts every arc flash incident in the United States. The most rigorous...
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Heat Exchanger Fouling: Energy Penalty and Cost Statistics
Last updated: July 2026 | By the editors at Reliable TL;DR: Heat exchanger fouling is one of the...
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Compressed Air Leak and Energy Waste Statistics: What the DOE Data Says
TL;DR Compressed air leaks waste 20 to 30 percent of a compressor’s output in a poorly...
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Electric Motor Failure Statistics: Causes, Failure Rates, and Survey Data
TL;DR: The major public motor reliability surveys most often cited since the early 1980s reach the...
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Pump Reliability and MTBF Statistics: Benchmarks, Failure Data, and Costs
The short version: Centrifugal pumps in U.S. refineries and petrochemical plants typically achieve...
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OSHA’s Most-Cited Maintenance-Related Violations
The short version: Several of OSHA’s ten most-cited standards are maintenance-relevant, and...
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Prescriptive Maintenance: What’s Real and What’s Marketing
Ask a vendor and prescriptive maintenance is already here: AI that not only sees a failure coming...
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Reliability Engineer Salary: Which Number Should You Trust
Search “reliability engineer salary” and you’ll get a different answer from every tab....
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