Predictive maintenance

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In-depth Guide to Predictive Maintenance Tools [2018 update]

Manufacturing has evolved. Organizations no longer need human intervention to manage every aspect of manufacturing. Today, an increasing volume of industrial activities are supported by robots, artificial intelligence (AI) and other modern technologies that enable organizations to get the most from every efforts.

With this growth and change, comes an evolution in the tools that are designed to support it. Some of the biggest changes have been seen our methods for keeping our different components functioning, and functioning well, for longer periods of time. Read more

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Predictive Maintenance In-depth Guide: Industry Usecases, Benefits

Are you working for an industrial company that is discarding most of its data? Are you wondering whether that data is valuable? We can help you decide.

Advanced equipment such as Internet of things (IOT) and Industrial Internet of things (IIOT) and robots are generating more data than ever before. However factories’ analytics capabilities have not caught up to this. According to Fero Labs  manufacturing companies discard 98% of all the data they can collect because they do not have the operational analytics capabilities to integrate that data in their operations. Read more

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Predictive vs Preventive: In-depth Maintenance Guide [2018 update]

As you can see above, if setting up analytics is not more costly than reduced uptime, then predictive analytics is the solution.

Let’s look at why. Most executives are not clear on how predictive is different than preventive maintenance they have been conducting for years. Both approaches aim to prevent unexpected breakdowns, increase uptime and useful life of machines. However, they have different cost structures and they require different capabilities from the organization.

Let’s start with the definitions to clarify misunderstandings: Read more

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