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NOVEMBER 6, 2024

From an industrial maintenance perspective, those that matter most are the machines and other equipment used to make what the business sells. This blog was written to help maintenance and other managers understand how to implement and maximize the value they get from this tool. What is an asset register? Contact us to learn more.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Share The ability of a machine, line or system to perform at the required level throughout its life is largely “baked-in” when it’s designed. Reliability availability maintainability analysis (RAM analysis) is a tool for first optimizing equipment durability and performance and then for identifying ways of making improvements.

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JUNE 12, 2024

Pareto analysis is a tool for prioritizing efforts in terms of scale of impact or size of benefits. A Pareto analysis is often displayed as a bar chart and it’s widely used in quality, maintenance and lean manufacturing. In almost every plant a few pieces of equipment are responsible for most of the unplanned downtime.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Share The level of increasingly sophisticated analysis made possible by machine learning algorithms and AI has been gradually improving maintenance standards across the industry as a whole. Machine learning is no longer a far-fetched dream but a reality for manufacturing. Let’s dive in!

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ATS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

This blog explains what the term means and introduces the technology involved. Remote” in this context refers to the person acquiring or using data from a machine not being physically present at the machine. After covering some of the many applications, it wraps up by detailing the biggest benefits of remote monitoring systems.

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Infinite Uptime

JUNE 16, 2022

It allows machine health monitoring using IIoT, streamlining the process and increasing efficiency. In this blog, we’ll share why IIoT machine monitoring is useful and how it can help you? But what is machine monitoring or condition monitoring? Machine monitoring is the modern way of plant maintenance.

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ATS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The 6 M’s are prompts that support effective problem analysis. Preventive maintenance aims to drive down unplanned downtime, although predictive maintenance, when sensors report on machine health, promises a bigger impact on OEE. Machine condition and maintenance emerge as factors in many root cause analysis efforts.

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OCTOBER 2, 2024

This uses machine health monitoring techniques to prevent equipment failures by optimizing delivery of maintenance services. Operational waste Any time machines aren’t running at full speed to produce what customers want, there is operational waste. The main culprits are inefficient processes and machine downtime.

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OCTOBER 15, 2024

Share Introduction to criticality analysis Manufacturers with a mandate to reduce downtime on the factory floor and improve their operational efficiency find it best to employ criticality analysis to help them prioritize maintenance tasks. What is criticality analysis? With DFMEA , you focus on the product design process.

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MAY 14, 2024

High levels of machine uptime indicate high productivity and efficiency. Just because a machine or line is available, it doesn’t mean that it’s running or “up.” This blog was written to help manufacturers identify opportunities to improve machinery uptime. What is machine uptime?

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Cisco Manufacturing

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This blog is the third in this three-part series, bringing a lens on process automation monitoring, dissecting the application flow and a little detail on why the serving wireless medium must behave in a particular way to support it. This third blog covers the last of our 3 use-cases: 1) Mobile robots and AGV. Cisco Solutions.

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ATS

MARCH 20, 2024

This blog dives into the subject of manufacturing optimization. Preventing scrap improves utilization of material and machines. The OEE metric provides a start point, but it’s helpful to go deeper by looking at factors such as labor, material, machine and even energy utilization. Downtime can be planned or unplanned.

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MARCH 26, 2024

Share Machine maintenance is an expense that eats into margins. This blog explores the value of adopting this strategy, what’s involved in implementation and the benefits to be expected. If any of these go down unexpectedly, other machines will quickly be idled, bringing production to a halt and wasting raw materials.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

This is especially true when it comes to downtime caused by unexpected equipment failures. Manufacturers have a lot riding on their ability to keep their systems functioning smoothly, which is why so many of them have invested in machine health monitoring. Share Surprises are rarely a good thing in manufacturing. technologies.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2023

These include: Machine maintenance: AI can make a major impact on maintenance processes throughout the organization, and AI in predictive maintenance is likely the area that can yield the greatest benefit. Uses of AI in manufacturing There are numerous applications of AI in manufacturing.

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ATS

AUGUST 8, 2023

A failure reporting analysis and corrective action system — known as a FRACAS — can help organizations to extract value from failure scenarios, analyze why they occur and take further action toward reducing and avoiding them. In this section, we will explore each part of FRACAS: failure reporting analysis and corrective action system.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Because prevention is often the best cure, it’s necessary for operators to understand what causes machine failures in the first place so they can take steps to keep them from happening. Read on to learn more about what causes machines to malfunction and what can be done to prevent downtime.

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MARCH 8, 2024

These are two challenges, both of which can be addressed by a single tool: manufacturing capacity analysis. This blog explores capacity analysis, and the related subject of manufacturing capacity planning. For a single machine, capacity is the number of minutes in the time period, divided by the part rate at full speed.

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APRIL 5, 2024

Share Predictive maintenance minimizes machine downtime while extending life and reducing costs but requires data about their health and activity. This blog is about the machine data collection process. It discusses the types of machine data acquired, how a system operates and how it can be used.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

By turning the raw operational data of both new IoT-enabled machines and older “legacy” equipment into actionable insights, a virtual factory allows manufacturers to make proactive informed decisions, reducing downtime and boosting productivity. Machine learning and data collection At the heart of a virtual factory is machine learning.

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OCTOBER 23, 2024

This blog starts out by asking, what is TEEP? It’s not directly a maintenance metric, but maintenance — planned and unplanned — factors into it, along with every other reason for machine stoppage. It considers downtime and periods where machinery is idle, identifying opportunities to increase production, utilization and efficiency.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Downtime must be minimized, and when maintenance work is undertaken, care and precision are essential. This blog answers the question, “What is high-tech manufacturing?” From the steam engine to electrical power to computer-controlled machines, each has enabled step-change improvements in productivity, efficiency and quality.

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OCTOBER 23, 2024

This blog reviews the importance of conveyor maintenance and identifies some useful tools and techniques. Machine health monitoring for conveyor belt systems Regular inspections are an important part of conveyor belt maintenance, but they can leave a long period between when a problem arises and when it’s discovered.

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JANUARY 5, 2024

Share When machines were run by operators, often, the first warning of an impending problem was when they heard an unusual sound, felt a strange vibration, or smelled an unfamiliar odor. Vibration analysis is one of the oldest types of condition-based monitoring and is effective for detecting tool damage or bearing faults.

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JUNE 4, 2024

Share Predictive maintenance is a strategy where machine health monitoring is used to look for signs of impending failure. This avoids doing preventive maintenance work that is either unnecessary or done too often, so increasing machine availability. This blog discusses the benefits of moving to mobile enterprise asset management.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Thanks to the integration of AI and IIoT technologies, machines can now predict impending failures with remarkable accuracy. This results in scheduled maintenance at convenient times and drastically reduces downtime and associated costs. Ways artificial intelligence in impacting IIoT Predictive maintenance In Industry 4.0,

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Infinite Uptime

JULY 6, 2022

Condition monitoring gives real-time machine working conditions via alerts and allows the maintenance team to take action when the problem is detected. In the cement industry, CBM performs vibration analysis of rotating equipment, oil, grease analysis, thickness measurement of kiln shell and chimney ducting, etc.,

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ATS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In addition to software that collects and collates data for analysis, machine sensors and the Industrial Internet of Things have made it possible for machines to communicate with operators and each other. This creates potentially billions of data points to be observed and analyzed at any given time.

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MARCH 6, 2024

This blog explains how to implement predictive maintenance, starting with a small-scale demonstration. Choose Assets to Test: It’s vital to select an area or group of machines that will show off the benefits of predictive maintenance. Is there an opportunity to make this a predictive maintenance machine learning pilot project?

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JULY 10, 2024

This blog explores what it takes to perform a time and motion study in the manufacturing industry. Covering preparation, the study, data analysis and implementation of improvements, it guides the reader through putting this tool to work. A time and motion study is a systematic analysis of a repetitive human task.

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AUGUST 8, 2023

The MES helps stakeholders at every level of the organization to better achieve objectives and outcomes by providing a link from ERP-level planning to machine-level data and control. Operating as a data collection, analysis and management platform, the MES leverages Industry 4.0 How does an MES work?

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Infinite Uptime

MARCH 24, 2022

Yet all manufacturers everywhere share a common enemy: Unplanned Downtime, which harms productivity, asset health, brand reputation & dotted line. Every year, top fortune 500 manufacturing enterprises lose almost 1 trillion to unplanned downtime, nearly 8% of their annual revenue. Once an anomaly (w.r.t

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MAY 22, 2024

This blog answers the questions, “What is emergency maintenance and what’s involved in planning for it?” Many machines and devices are able to send alerts when a breakdown has occurred. This is where equipment is instrumented with sensors that monitor various aspects of machine health. What is emergency maintenance?

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OCTOBER 6, 2023

From product quality to delivery performance to costs and cash flow, unscheduled downtime wreaks havoc on plans and budgets. This blog explains what that is and how it helps. As a roadmap, maturity model analysis shows managers what they need to do to make maintenance a competitive strength.

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OCTOBER 2, 2024

This blog is about ways of measuring maintenance performance. Maintenance affects output because unreliable machines create unplanned downtime and lost production. They link to output goals, and include uptime, downtime, OEE and Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF). The key is to link them to business goals.

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JUNE 4, 2024

This blog explores why maintenance budget planning is important. If production runs more hours than in previous years to meet increased demand, machines will need more maintenance. This helps avoid unplanned downtime, and the amount of PM performed will rise as machines run longer.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Manufacturers use it proactively to avoid unplanned machine downtime, maintain consistent levels of quality and prevent accidents. After introducing the methodology, this blog discusses when and how it should be followed. More often though, the failure mode analysis process is performed before any history exists.

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