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
Condition Monitoring Technologies – Pros and Cons of the Top Five
There are several different technologies that can be used, alone or in combination, to monitor the condition of your machinery from a predictive maintenance (PdM) perspective. The criticality of the machine affects the number of such inspection-type technologies that are applied to a given failure mode. The more critical the machine and the more critical the failure mode, the more redundancy you will want in the inspections.
- Timothy Weilbaker
- Allied Reliability, Inc.
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
What Are the Costs and Effects of Poor Power Quality?
Alan Ross, president of EPRA, gives an overview of the causes of poor power quality, the sectors that are most affected, and the cost of outages…
- Alan Ross
- Electric Power Reliability Alliance EPRA
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
Asset Management System Implementation Phases
Ahmed Kotb gives a detailed overview of the implementation phases that need to happen when setting up an asset management system…
- Ahmed Kotb
- TRANSCO
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
What Does an Electrical Power Reliability Systems Approach Mean for Various Reliability Professionals?
Each electrical asset has a design function, an operations function, a maintainability function, and a life cycle. You can look for yourself in that mix, but you cannot maintain your way to reliability if the operators are misusing the equipment or if…
- Alan Ross
- Electric Power Reliability Alliance EPRA
What Is Asset Management System AMS/EAM?
What is an asset management system, which different kinds are there, and which one is right for your business? Ahmed Kotb gives an overview.
- Ahmed Kotb
- TRANSCO