Maintenance 4.0 Implementation Handbook

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As the industrial world embarks on a path toward Maintenance 4.0 – a core foundation of Industry 4.0 – many plants seem stuck in neutral and are not moving beyond the pilot phase. Embracing innovation while discarding legacy know-how creates a risk to an organization’s competitive strengths. While there are theoretical frameworks to address this risk, the chasm between strategy and implementation cannot be crossed unless organizations can progress through all stages of the journey.

The Maintenance 4.0 Implementation Handbook provides a step-by-step guide for the entire Maintenance 4.0 implementation team. It covers a range of issues, including how to prioritize assets for deployment, the specific elements to include when forecasting investment returns and how to scale solutions across an organization. The Handbook contains practical tools and exercises for both senior managers planning for Maintenance 4.0 and plant-level employees responsible for deployment.

Written by the co-founding team of Presenso, the Handbook includes best practices from deploying artificial intelligence-driven industrial analytics at some of the world’s largest industrial plants. In addition, it provides insights from leading industry-recognized operations and maintenance practitioners. In this way, the implementation team can learn from the contributors’ successes and failures, avoiding some of the inevitable implementation roadblocks. If executed correctly, Maintenance 4.0 will reshape the industrial domain. In an era of disruptive innovation, it is discipline, conservative investments and old-fashioned executional excellence that will separate the winners from the losers.

"What a find! I would highly recommend this book to Operations and Maintenance Executives looking to be the disruptive leaders in their industry. It is an essential read to cut through all the AI hype, to get to a practical and realistic roadmap to implement AI-driven Industrial Analytics. This book is perfectly timed as Maintenance professionals navigate through the advent of the 4th Industrial Revolution – powered by the Internet of Things, AI and intelligent machines. It applies Industry 4.0 specifically to the Maintenance context, and is laser-focused on driving success in your first implementation in Maintenance 4.0
- Sandra DiMatteo, Marketing Director, Digital Twin Solutions, Bentley Systems

About the Author - David Almagor, Deddy Lavid, Avi Nowitz and Eitan Vesely

David Almagor, PhD

Dr. David Almagor is the Chairman of Presenso and a serial entrepreneur. He has over thirty years of experience in managing complex research and development and business entities, taking them from start-up inception to business success. His previous venture, Panoramic Power, was acquired by Centrica (LSE: CNA) for sixty-five million dollars. Dr. Almagor is an author of more than forty publications and a coauthor of five patents. He holds a Ph.D. EE and M.S.EE from the University of California, San Diego and a B.S.EE from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

Deddy Lavid 

Deddy Lavid (Ben lulu) is a CoFounder of Presenso and its Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Data Science. Deddy is considered a leading expert in the application of automated machine learning to industrial analytics. He has received several awards and prizes in the field of homeland security. Deddy authored twelve machine learning patents and published extensively on big data and academic research topics. Deddy holds a M.S. degree in Computer and Information Science and a B.S. degree in Computer Science from University of Haifa.

Avi Nowitz

Avi Nowitz is Head of Marketing at Presenso and one of its earliest employees. Apart from his role in commercializing the Presenso solution, Avi is responsible for evangelizing Maintenance 4.0 and AI-driven industrial analytics. Avi has over twenty years of experience in senior marketing and strategy positions and has worked at several global companies including Microsoft. He holds a B.A. degree in Economics (honors) and an M.B.A. degree from New York University Stern School of Business.

Eitan Vesely

Eitan Vesely is a Cofounder of Presenso and its Chief Executive Officer. Eitan is considered a thought leader in the Maintenance 4.0 discipline and has written extensively on this topic. He was previously a hardware specialist and a support engineer for Applied Materials, where he specialized in softwarehardware-mechanics interfaces and system overview. He holds a BSc degree in Mechanical Engineering from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

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