When Limble CEO Bryan Christiansen took the stage at the company’s 2025 Maintenance Heroes Summit, he didn’t just talk about maintenance – he reframed it as the backbone of modern business. His keynote, “Redefining Maintenance for What’s Next.” challenged the audience to see maintenance not as a cost center, but as a catalyst for resilience, growth, and transformation in the future of work.
1. The challenges are evolving—so maintenance must, too
Today’s maintenance teams face an impossible task: do more with less, hit higher standards, and adapt to relentless change. But Bryan’s message was clear: maintenance is not falling behind, it’s redefining the rules.
“The world has changed. And maintenance isn’t just part of the response—it is the response,” Bryan said.
By turning constraints into innovation, maintenance leaders are proving that operational excellence is business excellence.
2. From factory floors to boardrooms, maintenance is a growth strategy
Drawing from real customer stories, Bryan showed how forward-thinking teams are using modern maintenance to reduce downtime, boost performance, and protect the bottom line. He shared highlights from companies like:
- Cornerstone Building Brands, which achieved 99% PM completion and a 63% reduction in downtime after shifting from reactive to planned maintenance
- Island Abbey Nutritionals, which improved uptime to 98% and reduced audit prep time by 90% by digitizing their operations
- Powder Mountain, where full mobile adoption and predictive maintenance transformed seasonal workflows and response times
As Bryan noted, “These aren’t just maintenance wins—they’re business wins.”
3. AI is here to help, not replace
Amid the noise about automation and job loss, Bryan shared a different vision: AI that amplifies people. Limble’s AI is being built not to replace technicians, but to free them, turning mountains of repetitive work into seconds of insight.
Upcoming tools within Limble will bring manuals, asset histories, and work orders to life, transforming previously hidden knowledge into a useful, accessible system. And this is just the beginning. Future enhancements will recommend tasks based on asset history, suggest parts based on failure trends, flag risks before they impact uptime, streamline labor and workforce decision and much more. The future isn’t man versus machine, it’s man with machine.
4. Innovation without limits
Bryan also previewed Limble’s latest wave of innovation, designed to let teams scale smarter:
- AI-Powered PM Builder to create optimized schedules in minutes, not hours
- Work Request Review & Approval to filter out the noise before it slows technicians down
- Multiple Currency functionality with seamless labeling and reporting for global teams
- Asset Templates designed to speed up asset standardization across sites
These innovations all serve a shared goal: helping teams do more with less, and do it smarter.
5. The future belongs to future-ready teams
Bryan closed with a bold call to action: the companies that will define the next decade aren’t the ones who resist change, but the ones who seize it.
“Your work is essential,” he told the audience. “And at Limble, our mission is to make that work easier, more strategic, and more impactful—every single day.”
Maintenance leaders must equip their teams for what’s next—not just to survive, but to lead. That means embracing data, AI, and technology not as a threat, but as a toolkit.
Watch the full keynote
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