Cybersecurity is no longer a niche concern for IT departments; it has become a strategic pillar of industrial maintenance and operational resilience.

Maintenance debt (maintenance backlog, deficit in physical asset management) arises when maintenance is not carried out as planned, in sufficient scope, or at the appropriate time. The consequence is a deterioration in the performance of equipment and systems relative to requirements.

Along with our congratulations, we wanted to ask the new Chair for her views on the future of the association.

Maintenance is entering a new phase. Not because of louder buzzwords, but because the logic underneath is changing. Kai Goebel has watched Prognostics and Health Management grow from statistical guesswork into data driven intelligence. Now he argues that the real transformation is only beginning.