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  • Condition Monitoring

Reliable Machinery Installation

“Reliable machinery installation” – it sounds like an obvious thing, don’t you agree? But where does reliability actually start?

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  • Asset Strategy

A Practical Guide to Setting up IIoT-Based Predictive Maintenance

As initial hype around Internet of Things (IoT) in the consumer market fades, focus and emphasis has now shifted to Industrial IoT, in particular Predictive Maintenance. Part of the excitement in Industrial IoT stems from the fact that IoT technology can provide quantifiable benefits and savings to plants...

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  • Asset Strategy

Asset Knowledge Visualizations: A Vehicle for Maximizing the Business Value of Intelligent Asset Management (IAM) Solutions

In recent years the abundance of digital data about enterprise assets enables the development, deployment and operation of data-driven solutions for managing assets in intelligent ways. The latter result in improved reliability, as well as minimization of failures and costs..

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  • Defect Elimination

How Consistently Designed Procedures Can Save Lives, Time, and Money

Procedures are a series of steps followed in a regular, definite order, and most people complete the steps of multiple procedures every day. Whether they’re written down or internalized, procedures are organizational tools that help people safely and accurately complete tasks..

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  • Condition Monitoring

Tying Reliability Programs into Corporate Goals

Cost avoidance? Sure, why not. However, it is a method that has been continuously used through a great many programs that have gone the way of a great many programs.

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  • Precision and Proactive Skills

Understanding Failures and the Potential Failure (P-F) Curve

To understand the importance and the benefits of a Reliability and Precision Program, it is of the upmost importance to have an understanding of failures firs first..

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  • Defect Elimination

Remembering the Past, Thinking about the Future, Being in the Present

For a reliability engineer, focusing on the past and the future will allow you to learn from what has happened in the past and what might happen in the future. It will then generate a list of actionable items to work on in the present..

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  • Implementation Strategy

Industrial Manufacturers are Facing a New Normal During COVID-19 and AI-Powered Connected Worker Technology is Here to Help

For industrial companies, improving the safety and productivity of frontline workers in the COVID-19 era and beyond will be critical to business success and continuity. Tools like remote assistance, augmented work instructions, and knowledge sharing will be crucial to helping these companies transform their operation and continue to support their customers..

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  • Implementation Strategy

Silver Bullets Can Backfire

We want silver bullets and quick results. Indeed, if we know what we are looking for, some quick wins are usually possible, yet they will usually only scratch the surface when it comes to overall payback potential. What we see happening...

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