The early detection and fault analysis of bearing problems is crucial. When a rolling-element bearing develops flaws on the races and/or rolling elements, there are four vibration frequencies that can result...
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.
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…
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…
David Howard addresses some of the most common questions people have about wireless sensors, including topics such as WIFI and range, product life cycle, software and gateway, the maximum temperature a sensor can withstand, battery life, and what happens if a device loses connection…
A 500 MW power plant generates about 10,000 data points every second. It’s impossible for humans to review all this data and use it to optimize plant performance.
“Maintenance” and “Reliability” terms are frequently mentioned together because there is a strong bond between them, and this bond is so strong that many people don’t differentiate between maintenance and reliability!
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…
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