Predictive Maintenance Articles
Early results from Plant Services survey: Teams have fewer resources, corporate culture looms larger
Maintenance operations have evolved significantly over the past decade and are at a crossroads of sorts today, according to preliminary results from the fifth industry survey by Plant Services magazine. Preventive maintenance is…
Why your CFO doesn’t like you: 6 ways to align Operations and Finance
A common misconception among operational teams is that value is production output or process throughput, and that once a plant is producing, all is good. However, assets must also deliver financial value, including…
The Hive Celebrates Employee Appreciation Day!
In this installment of The Hive, the bees are putting their Employee Appreciation Day gifts to good use. However, the bees’ use of sensors isn’t the best way to enhance your connected reliability…
Preview of the 2020 Plant Services predictive maintenance survey and more
Plant Services recently launched its fifth survey of industry professionals, to identify their approaches and attitudes to predictive maintenance and related Industry 4.0 technologies. Join Plant Services chief editor Thomas Wilk for a…
eMaint implementation at Inframark has been a success
By Pamela Curry, Inframark Special Projects Manager Reprinted with permission from the Inframark newsletter, The Source, October 2019 Inframark’s first eMaint system went live in mid-2018, kicking off an effort to put in…
What to know about predictive technologies and their impact on maintenance and reliability
Predictive technologies and condition-based maintenance play a larger role in establishing a robust reliability and maintainability process than most realize. This webinar presentation by renowned expert Dr. Klaus Blache will discuss the past,…
What’s next in maintenance? A look at transformational impacts of AI, Industry 4.0, and IIoT
In this webinar, Fluke experts Adam Kornak and Brian Harrison explore topics such as artificial intelligence vs. intelligent automation, virtual reality vs. augmented reality, and the implications of IIoT-enabled mobility for maintenance and…
How power monitoring software can save your budget and business
Optimize performance and prevent downtime Imagine a machine that stamps plastic parts. It has three different phases coming into the asset, and occasionally, one of those phases becomes unbalanced. An unbalanced phase affects…
Repair/replace and resource strategies for your asset life cycle management
Reliability engineer and consultant Lucas Marino discusses using Level of Repair Analysis (LORA) for evaluating the resource mix and repair-or-replace strategies for your asset life cycle management. He outlines the benefits of…