News

Panel: Extending Asset Life: What’s Possible Today

Friday, 1 May 2026

Extending the operational life of critical assets is one of the most pressing challenges facing industry, and materials science is central to meeting it. From coatings and composites to predictive maintenance and AI-assisted monitoring, the tools available to engineers and operators are advancing rapidly. But the gap between what is technically possible and what is practically deployable remains wide. This panel takes an honest look at where materials science and digital innovation are genuinely delivering longer lasting, lower cost solutions, what is still holding back wider deployment, and what it would take to bring research capability closer to the realities of industrial operation.

Discussion Points:
• What does “lower cost, longer lasting” actually require from materials science right now?
• Where does predictive maintenance and AI genuinely add value, and where is it still overpromised?
• What are the biggest barriers moving solutions from lab to deployment?
• What would it take to close the gap between what researchers can do and what operators need?

Update NEC Conference data

By clickinhg on the buttons below you will be updating the NEC Conference data!
This will start the API call to the EP : HUB site to gather the data.

Note : The process can take a few moments to action!
So ONLY PRESS A BUTTON ONCE.

Update NEC Conference data is for updating the Conference Session data


Run Speaker House Keeping is for updating Speaker data


When the API call is complete and the data has been updated, the web page will refresh.