What does reliability look like when your assets aren’t bolted to the floor—but hauling 200 tons of ore up a 6% grade? In this episode of Gear Talk, host Wes Cash sits down with Terry Taylor, a veteran of mining and heavy industry, to explore reliability in mobile equipment environments.

In the cement manufacturing world, the raw mill is the quiet workhorse—grinding limestone, clay, and other ingredients into raw meal, the critical precursor for clinker production. Clinker is the hot, marble-sized product discharged from the kiln and ultimately ground into cement, making the raw mill’s performance foundational to the entire plant...

AI, sensors, and digital tools are flooding the maintenance and reliability world—but are organizations adopting them the right way? In this episode of Gear Talk, host Wes Cash sits down with Dave Howard, CEO of Erbessd Instruments, to challenge the “technology-first” mindset and make the case for a more sustainable approach: people first, technology second.