Five Minute Facts
7 Steps to Assess Your Organization’s Readiness for Industry 4.0
In the ideal world of Industry 4.0, organizations will have better equipment with wireless connections and sensors linked to a system that can visualize and control the entire production line and make autonomous decisions. Industry 4.0, in other words, describes the ever-increasing trend towards automation and data exchange.
- Tom Rombouts
- I-care Group
How to Perform PMO
You might have tens of thousands of assets, and those assets have tens of thousands of PMs. You won’t be able to devour the entire elephant at once and will have to take one bite at a time, so that’s where…
- Brendon Russ
- U.S. Sugar
The Business Case for Predictive Maintenance
When making a business case for predictive maintenance, you must first ask what management want. You should then ask what the employees want. Jason Tranter explains…
- Jason Tranter
- Mobius Institute
Certain Types of Motivation Actually Damage Work Performance
Michelle Henley has spoken about direct motivating factors (the P’s) and indirect motivating factors (the E’s). One of these enhances performance at work, and one actually decreases it. Scientific research backs this up, showing that…
- Michelle Henley
- TMG Frontline Solutions
Why Is an EAM Migration the Perfect Time to Correct Your Failure Codes?
If you are planning an EAM migration, then this is the perfect time to correct your failure codes. If your failure codes are not set up correctly this can impact your company’s maintenance and operations. The ideal time to correct your failure codes is before you load your master data into your new EAM system. By verifying your failure codes are set up correctly prior to your EAM migration, you will have ensured that the new EAM you are implementing is set up to support good maintenance practices.
- Rhiana Safieh
- HubHead Corp
How to Transform Data into Insights
The transition to predictive maintenance becomes difficult if you are not able to generate and collect the right data. You need to be able to not only collect data, but to also analyze and visualize the data in a dashboard, so you can act on it right away.
- Pieter Van Camp
- I-Care Group
Nine Key Points to Execute a Successful Online Diagnostics Project
Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) finds many application fields today in the industry by connecting assets to each other, gathering data and transferring it to other internet-enabled systems..
- Can Uslu
- PdMechanics
Brewery Saves Big by Extending Compressor Oil Life
With regular oil analysis to ensure oil quality and cleanliness, the drain intervals for all four air compressors were extended up to eight times the OEM-recommended interval of 8,000 hours. Total cost savings – on oil alone – was $71,000. Environmental impact was reduced as well, with 1,035 fewer litres (273 fewer gallons) of waste oil. Fewer oil changes also meant less downtime, maintenance and labor. The overall effect for the company was significant cost savings on oil, maintenance time and disposal.
- Preston Rubottom
- Lubrication Engineers
Accelerometer Performance in Wireless Condition Monitoring
Are you implementing wireless condition monitoring in your plant but worried about accelerometer performance? Ed Spence discusses numerous issues, including battery life…
- Ed Spence
- The Machine Instrumentation Group