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SAP and Caterpillar: Connecting Live Engineering And Predictive Maintenance
Caterpillar creates machinery that powers businesses, builds communities, and enriches lives, from diesel-powered engines and gas turbines to hydraulic excavators and agricultural tractors. With the help of SAP, Caterpillar has manufactured heavy-duty equipment with IoT sensors for several customers -
Lenze partners with ei3 to offer IIoT-based remote analysis and maintenance services
As part of their service contract with Lenze, machine builders can collect all the data that is available inside the Lenze controllers. They can then evaluate this data and make it available to their own customers, either as an up-to-date dashboard or in the form of reports providing performance figures. -
Is Your PM Program Passive, Preventative, Predictive or Proactive?
Your PM program represents but one part, although an important one, of the full life cycle of your automation system and facility. -
Fluke Aims for Holistic Maintenance Management with Accelix Platform
By Bill Lydon, Editor, Automation.com There is a great deal of hype around IIoT, and much of it may never be realized, but Fluke and their Accelix platform is a real-world solution which may finally deliver the tangible IIoT gains that companies have been yearning for. -
ABB helps Italian water company improve maintenance efforts
CBV expects to reduce plant operating costs by up to 30 percent and maintenance time by up to 40 percent when ABB Ability Electrical Distribution Control System is fully implemented at other locations. -
Lenze teams with ei3 to offer white label remote analysis and maintenance
Lenze has joined forces with the IoT specialist ei3 to offer a combination of remote analysis and remote maintenance services. It is a white label product which means that there is no visible evidence of the ei3 brand, and the product appears under the name and logo of the OEM. -
What Does a Good Machine Sound Like? A look at 3DSignals’ Predictive Maintenance Efforts
By Bill Lydon, Editor, Automation.com You know that feeling when you walk past a machine, and something just doesn’t quite sound right? This article discusses the use of audio analysis sensors and deep learning technology to predict equipment problems and generate alerts for preventative maintenance actions. -
Webinar Recording: How Machine Learning is Advancing Predictive Maintenance in Manufacturing
Advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning have significantly accelerated the application of predictive maintenance on the plant floor. -
Webinar Recording: How to Implement Proactive Condition-Based Maintenance Strategies
Make your smart assets your new reliability specialist. -
Why Is Instrumentation Critical for the Automation Professional?
A detailed understanding of instrumentation is critical for any automation professional. -
Predictive Maintenance Embraces Analytics
Predictive analytics pushes the pursuit of asset reliability from its reactive orientation to one that is fully forward-looking and better aligned with the goals and realities of today's manufacturing -
The Importance of Using Tuned Positioners on All Control Valves
Readback control of valve position compensates for a host of unknowns in connection with valve response but a positioner, like a controller, must be tuned. -
Why You Should Document the Benefits of Process Control Improvements
Capture and report trends of key process variables and metrics immediately before and after process control improvements. -
Technical Expertise Across Multiple Platforms: What the Auto Dealership Taught Me the Hard Way
Technical Expertise Across Multiple Platforms: What the Auto Dealership Taught Me the Hard Way -
The Benefits of Listening Skills for an Industrial Career
The knowledge of individuals can be openly shared environment at an industrial plant or facility is inquisitive and friendly and egos take a back seat. -
Intelligent Sensors Enable Companies to Start a Predictive Maintenance Program Without Expert Vibration Knowledge
Historically, expert knowledge of vibration analysis was required to start and maintain a vibration-based predictive maintenance program. This white paper describes how using intelligent sensors can alleviate the need for vibration experts. -
The Cost of a Continuous Waste Stream in Process Automation
Any continuous waste stream is an excellent candidate for a money saving opportunity. Always keep an eye out for them. -
Virtualization Simplifies Computer Maintenance and Delivers High Performance
Virtualization simplifies computer maintenance and delivers high performance
