Maintenance and reliability are changing fast. AI is creeping into every workflow, skilled trades are harder to find, and leadership is being asked to do more with less. Formal training still matters, but in 2026, some of your most useful learning will come through your headphones—on the way to the site, during inspections, or over lunch.
To save you the scroll time, here are the 10 best maintenance podcasts for 2026, carefully picked for active publishing, practical insight, and strong relevance to CMMS, reliability, asset management, and facilities.
1. CMMSradio
If your world revolves around work orders, assets, and backlogs, CMMSradio should be at the top of your playlist. The show focuses on “all things CMMS,” from choosing the right system to squeezing real value out of the one you already have. Host Greg Christensen brings together maintenance leaders, CMMS vendors, and practitioners to talk about selection, implementation, data cleanup, user adoption, and when it’s time for a “lift-and-shift” to something better. Recent episodes dive into mergers and acquisitions in the CMMS world, process improvement, and how real organizations are modernizing their maintenance systems.
Best for:
Maintenance and facilities leaders planning a new CMMS, rescuing a struggling one, or justifying an upgrade.
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2. Reliability Radio (Reliabilityweb)
Produced by Reliabilityweb, Reliability Radio is built as “your source for maintenance and asset strategy,” featuring thought leaders from across reliability, asset management, and digital transformation. Episodes cover everything from foundational reliability practices and Uptime Elements to AI, predictive maintenance, and culture change. The show often spotlights Uptime Award winners and IMC speakers, so you get conference-grade insight without leaving the plant.
Best for:
Reliability engineers and asset managers who want strategic ideas plus real-world examples they can adapt.
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3. Reliability 4.0 Podcast (Reliability.com)
The Reliability 4.0 Podcast, from Reliability.com, focuses squarely on how modern tools—AI, IoT, big data, and advanced RCA—are reshaping maintenance and asset management. Host Sebastian Traeger talks with practitioners, innovators, and analysts about topics like when to use 5 Whys vs. logic trees, how to scale RCA, and the cultural side of going digital. The show is positioned as a way to stay “informed and inspired” with expert interviews and case studies you can recognize from your own plant.
Best for:
Teams piloting or scaling AI/analytics, or anyone modernizing their root cause analysis and decision-making.
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4. Gear Talk (Noria Corporation)
Gear Talk by Noria Corporation connects maintenance and reliability professionals with “reliable information, insights, and experts” so they can hit their goals more effectively and enthusiastically. Hosted by Wes Cash, episodes focus heavily on lubrication and reliability fundamentals but branch into workforce development, staffing, and leadership. Recent topics include staffing barriers in manufacturing, what makes a great lube champion, and why being “brilliant at the basics” still matters in a high-tech world.
Best for:
Maintenance teams who want to tighten up the basics—lubrication, PMs, and reliability culture—without getting buried in jargon.
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5. Reliability Gang Podcast
The Reliability Gang Podcast is a more informal, story-based show that follows host Will Bower (and co-host Will Crane) on a “reliability journey.” It’s designed to share real experiences and lessons from the field in a down-to-earth way. Expect conversations on condition monitoring, precision maintenance, reliability culture, and the human side of change, often framed through the hosts’ own projects and industry guests. It’s less slide deck, more coffee chat—perfect if you learn best from stories.
Best for:
Technicians, engineers, and supervisors who like practical, story-driven reliability insights rather than conference-style presentations.
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6. Asset Management Visionaries® – Shaping Tomorrow
Asset Management Visionaries® – Shaping Tomorrow is a video-and-audio podcast from the Asset Management Professionals (AMP) community. It’s explicitly focused on global asset management and on “protagonists” of reliability—leaders who are shaping the future of the discipline. Episodes feature senior asset and reliability leaders from cities, utilities, industrial companies, and technology providers, covering risk, AI, digitalization, leadership, and culture. The show is framed as a monthly series that helps you see asset management “as you’ve never seen it before,” and it feels very much like sitting in on a high-level strategy conversation.
Best for:
Asset managers, reliability leaders, and executives are chasing ISO 55000-style maturity and long-term asset strategy.
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7. Reliability Hero Podcast
If you want to refocus on the people behind reliability, the Reliability Hero podcast is a perfect fit. Hosted by Andrew Daddo and produced for the MAINSTREAM Community, it profiles “real-life heroes in the maintenance and reliability field” and the work they do to keep economies moving. Episodes cover everything from aviation maintenance and process safety to digital transformation and mental health—like conversations with meditation experts on stress management for maintenance professionals. It’s part inspiration, part practical wisdom about leadership, change, and staying sane in demanding environments.
Best for:
Leaders and practitioners who want to strengthen culture, leadership, and well-being alongside technical reliability work.
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- Spotify: available via the show’s Buzzsprout hub
- Apple Podcasts
- Website
8. Speaking Of Reliability: Friends Discussing Reliability Engineering Topics | Warranty | Plant Maintenance
A staple of the reliability world, Speaking Of Reliability is part of the Accendo Reliability network and runs as a semiweekly discussion between reliability experts answering listener questions. The show covers design reliability, testing, warranty, field data, and plant maintenance—often delving into nuances such as failure analysis, accelerated testing, and real-world reliability trade-offs. With hundreds of episodes produced over a decade, it’s one of the deepest free archives of reliability-engineering content available.
Best for:
Reliability engineers, analysts, and anyone studying reliability who wants thoughtful, technical conversations anchored in real practice.
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9. Beyond Built: The Future of Facilities and Asset Management
Produced by Accruent and Caspian Studios, Beyond Built: The Future of Facilities and Asset Management takes a facilities-centric view of maintenance and asset management. It explores trends such as AI, machine learning, analytics platforms, and ESG, with guests from sectors including retail, manufacturing, healthcare, and petrochemicals. Hosted by Eric Cook, the show promises to “cut through the noise and focus on changes that really work” for the built environment—perfect for FM and corporate real-estate teams grappling with modernization.
Best for:
Facilities managers, corporate real-estate leaders, and maintenance teams responsible for buildings and campuses.
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10. Great Question: A Manufacturing Podcast (Plant Services)
Finally, Great Question: A Manufacturing Podcast from Plant Services zooms out to the broader manufacturing world while staying highly relevant to maintenance and reliability. It’s described as news and information “for the people who make, store, and move things and those who manage and maintain the facilities where that work gets done.” Episodes tackle topics such as data-driven lubrication, training ROI, workforce development, OT cybersecurity, industrial AI, 3D printing, and more—often featuring maintenance or reliability leaders as guests. It’s a great way to understand where maintenance fits into wider manufacturing trends.
Best for:
Maintenance leaders in manufacturing who want both practical tactics and context on technology, economics, and workforce issues.
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Turning Listening into Uptime
You don’t need to binge every episode from every show. Instead:
- Pick 2–3 core podcasts from this list that match your role (for example, CMMSradio + Reliability 4.0 + Gear Talk for a maintenance manager).
- Queue specific episodes tied to the problems you’re facing this quarter—backlog, skills gaps, digital transformation, or culture.
- Turn ideas into small experiments: one new PM tweak, one better meeting, one small analytic or CMMS change at a time.
