Industrial companies have invested heavily in reliability engineering, preventive maintenance, condition monitoring and digitalisation. Yet many still struggle to realise the full value of those investments when they translate maintenance strategy into action on the machine.

Factory-floor teams are adopting industrial artificial intelligence faster than executive leadership is building the data, safety and governance structures needed to scale it, according to IFS’s Industrial Index 2026.

Asia Pacific is projected to record the highest regional growth rate during the period.

Finnfund and Proparco, backed by a European Union guarantee, are supporting Colombian solar energy company ERCO as it expands solar generation and battery storage capacity.

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