Reliability practice for working industrial teams.
Fluke Reliability Radio is a technical show built from best-practice presentations for maintenance and reliability professionals. Its episodes favor practical plant-floor decisions: training technicians, measuring CBM results, managing assets, using AI, and choosing tools that reduce avoidable failure.
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Fluke Reliability Radio is an industrial maintenance and reliability show shaped like a series of technical best-practice sessions. The center of gravity is the plant: machines that fail, teams that get stretched thin, leaders who need proof, and programs that only work when people actually use them. Episodes are often led by practitioners with experience in maintenance, reliability, asset management, vibration analysis, product management, or customer success. The pacing is instructional. A speaker defines the problem, shows the working method, then moves into questions from people dealing with similar issues in the field. That format gives the show a practical texture. It is not glossy trend talk. It is about compressed air leaks, shaft alignment, CBM dashboards, CMMS behavior, technician training, AI adoption, and the cost of letting failures repeat. Reliability is presented as a culture comparable to safety, with procedures, accountability, leadership support, and cross-functional participation. Several episodes return to the gap between maintenance teams and the rest of the organization. The show repeatedly argues that operations, leadership, and maintenance have to share the same picture of downtime, cash flow, and availability. Training receives similar treatment. It is framed as an investment that needs records, qualification guides, troubleshooting checks, mentoring, and recognition for performance. Technology is handled with caution and detail. AI is discussed as a support system for change management, recruitment, customer feedback, and human analysts, not as a magic replacement for expertise. Vibration monitoring episodes emphasize trust, accuracy, and prioritized repair recommendations because a wrong call can carry real cost. Asset-management episodes push listeners to assess whether they are firefighting, stabilizing, or building toward a more mature reliability program. Alignment and measurement topics get granular, covering dial indicators, filler gauges, traceability, reports, sweep modes, and rotating equipment challenges. The result is a show for people who already know the stakes of poor maintenance and want usable language, examples, and frameworks for improving it.
Made for: Maintenance managers, reliability engineers, CBM analysts, plant leaders, and industrial teams looking for applied guidance on asset performance, training, and failure reduction.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by staying close to operational reality: metrics, tools, self-assessments, field constraints, and the organizational habits that determine whether reliability programs hold.
Integrated solutions from Fluke Reliability are built for the present and the future. Our products and services are designed for the assets and team you already have in place. We “meet you where you are” and deliver rapid results on your current challenges. On top of that, our Accelix IIoT platform enables you to add new solutions that can be instantly integrated with your existing technology. In this way, we provide you a practical roadmap for greater IIoT leverage as your maintenance program evolves.
That PM saying "check"? You'll leave wanting to ask, "Check what?"
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A practical look at reliability change through leak detection, compressor standards, training, and plant-level IoT.
Ten-plus years of reliability and maintenance change comes through as a grounded tour of tools, standards, and training that have altered plant work.
A practical reliability discussion that treats asset management as a culture test, from firefighting to stage four.
Asset management comes across as a working culture, not a maintenance slogan. Blake Baca of BBB Solutions, LLC treats reliability as a mindset that lowers risk, reduces defects, improves availability, and cuts cost when practices and procedures are actually followed.
A grounded case for maintenance training that spreads skill beyond one standout technician.
Training comes through as a practical investment in maintenance performance, with Lee McLeish keeping the discussion close to the work technicians actually do.
A grounded discussion of AI, manufacturing skills, recruitment, customer experience, and workplace change.
From Shortage to Strength looks at whether AI can ease manufacturing's skills shortage, then shifts the real focus to adoption: how teams understand new tools, trust them, and work them into daily habits.
AI is framed as analyst support, where repair accuracy matters because a bad call can get expensive.
This PlayNext review treats industrial vibration monitoring as a high-stakes workflow, not a novelty demo. Michael DiMaria, Steve Hudson, and Austin Anderson look at how AI can help translate incoming machine data into component-level repair recommendations while still…
Practical safety talk for oil and energy work.
Industrial tech without the hype fog.
Practical talk for pump and water systems.
Manufacturing conversations from Pittsburgh robots to Kansas City sausage.
["Fluke Reliability Radio hosts Thomas Wilk of Plant Services for \"10 Years After: A Snapshot of How Reliability and Maintenance Have Changed Over the Last Decade.\"", "Wilk says the talk comes from 10-year lookback articles and his long partnership with Fluke Reliability, with Robin introducing his University of Illinois and Ohio State University background.", "Klaus Blake's Reliability and Maintainability Center data still show about 35% reactive work, 52% to 53% preventive work, and just over 10% predictive work, far from the 9% to 12% reactive target he calls world class.", "The episode tracks practical shifts in ISO 55000, ICML lubrication standards, NFPA 70E and NFPA 70B, motor repair behavior, compressed-air heat recovery, AI planning tools, and the labor squeeze described by Jake Hall, Abby Pennington, and two maintenance CEOs."]
Fluke Reliability Radio's "Walking the Talk" of Asset Management has Blake Baca, owner of BBB Solutions, LLC, linking reliability work to culture change, not software or process maps.
Lee McLeish, director of maintenance and reliability for NTT GDC Americas and author of Maintenance Leadership 101, opens Fluke Reliability Radio with a 38% versus 63% poll on whether companies have effective training.
["Fluke Reliability Radio\u2019s \"From Shortage to Strength: Will AI Be the Solution to Manufacturing Skills Shortage?\" has Georgia Marchant, Olivia Klein, Candice Potter, and Gavin Robinson unpack a 605-person survey across the UK, US, Japan, and Germany.", "The panel cites 1.9 million projected unfilled U.S.
Fluke Reliability Radio's "Sit Down Q&A with Azima Product and Service Managers" centers on Steve Hudson's point that service output rose from 560,000 tests to nearly 900,000 in 2024, while more data still does not guarantee better insight.
Fluke Reliability Radio features Keith Chua of Proof Technic discussing adaptive alignment for rotating equipment and shaft-alignment challenges.
Jeff Langford of Azima DLI explains how condition-based maintenance programs can measure workload, data collection compliance, response speed, fault rates, key saves, and return on investment.
Gary Wood, a Fluke Customer Success Manager with 34 years of CMMS and maintenance-team experience, explains how generational, geographic, and educational shifts have narrowed the technician pipeline.
Blake Baca of BDB Solutions LLC explains how equipment registers, hierarchies, and nameplate data support reliability, availability, and cost control.
Michael DeMaria of Azima DLI explains how vibration analysis and connected reliability systems can support plant sustainability objectives.
Fluke Reliability Radio presents Greg Perry's CMMS – 10 Key Steps Methodology, focused on using a ten-step change method from implementation through continuous improvement.
Fluke Reliability Radio features David Metz explaining why shaft axes must remain co-linear during normal operating conditions, not merely when machinery is cold.
Stephen Hudson, Fluke Reliability’s services leader, explains how automated diagnostic analytics address rising vibration-data volumes and shortages of experienced analysts.
Fluke Reliability Radio features Jeremiah, CRO of Arusin, explaining how AI can classify spare-parts criticality and connect that classification to inventory stocking strategies.
Lee of Fluke Reliability Radio distinguishes replacing a broken bearing from root cause analysis that examines training, processes, tools, and recurrence prevention.
Gary, Director of Engineering and Maintenance at CW Services, explains how maintenance teams can begin condition-based and predictive maintenance with small sensor deployments.
Fluke Reliability Radio presents Michael’s explanation of how power-quality events affect motor-driven systems, variable-frequency drives, and controllers.
Michael DiMaria of Azima DLI explains how plants can maintain more equipment with fewer skilled analysts by combining simple data collection, automated vibration diagnostics, and centralized workflows.
Steven Hudson, Director of Professional Services at Fluke Reliability, compares piezoelectric accelerometers with MEMS sensors used in wireless vibration monitoring.
Fluke Reliability Radio examines how Michael DeMaria and Azima DLI attach confidence to automated vibration-diagnostic repair recommendations.
Fluke Reliability Radio features Lee, Director of Maintenance and Reliability for NTT GDC Americas, on whether industrial workplace culture can change.
Fluke Reliability Radio presenter Stephen Hudson explains how to detect faults in shafts below 60 RPM using piezoelectric accelerometers and impact demodulation.
Fluke Reliability Radio's "Exploring Online, Offline, and Remote Condition Monitoring" features Fluke Reliability Engineer Derek LaMelle explaining how plants choose monitoring methods for critical equipment.
John Burnett of Fluke Reliability explains why imbalance is a common mechanical fault and why precision balancing should precede broader connected-reliability work.
Michael, Azima DLI’s product manager, introduces automated vibration diagnostics within Fluke Reliability after more than 30 years in vibration analysis.
Gary Stephens discusses maintenance reliability and safety, emphasizing lockout/tagout procedures and the importance of people as assets.
A webinar on using Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) to improve equipment reliability, hosted by Fluke Reliability.
A webinar introduction discussing Fluke Reliability's integrated solutions for asset management and condition-based maintenance.