OpexMX Articles
Insights and best practices on maintenance management, reliability, and manufacturing operations.
Reliability2026-07-16
Remaining Useful Life (RUL): The One Maintenance Metric That Looks Forward
Most reliability metrics look backward. Remaining useful life looks forward. Here is what RUL actually is, the three ways to estimate it, and why it only matters when it triggers a work order.
Reliability2026-07-12
Weibull Analysis for Maintenance: Turning Failure Data Into Remaining-Useful-Life Predictions
Your CMMS already holds years of failure data. Weibull analysis turns it into remaining-useful-life predictions with confidence bounds — no machine learning required.