What if the biggest reliability gains aren’t coming from new technology, but from getting lubrication right? AssetWatch experts discuss why education, culture, and proper lubrication practices remain some of the most overlooked drivers of asset reliability—and how simple changes can deliver measurable results.
As enterprises move beyond AI experimentation, the next challenge is operationalizing AI. How to apply intelligence where work happens, connect insight to action, coordinate execution across teams and systems and do it all with the trust and control required for mission-critical environments. For asset-intensive organizations, that operating model comes to life in the domain of physical asset operations.
Mechanical seals are often small compared with the pump, driver, coupling, baseplate, piping system, or control system. Yet anyone who has spent time around rotating equipment knows that seals can have a much larger impact than their size suggests. A mechanical seal is not just a wear part. It is a containment device, a reliability component, an emissions-control device, and in many services, a critical safety barrier. At its simplest, a mechanical seal contains process fluid where a rotating shaft passes through a stationary casing. In real plant operation, that simple function becomes extremely important. A seal may be the only component preventing a hydrocarbon, toxic fluid, hot liquid, corrosive chemical, or environmentally sensitive product from leaking to atmosphere.
IFS, the global leader in Industrial AI, today announced an agreement with Chelsea Football Club, to make Chelsea a trailblazer in the use of AI within their operations, setting a new benchmark and innovative approach for a Premier League football club. This agreement follows on from February’s announcement of the multi-year global partnership between IFS and Chelsea Football Club.
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Sedin Technologies has completed the migration of enterprise asset management operations for one of Asia's largest integrated resort operators onto IBM Maximo Application Suite (MAS) SaaS. The project spanned five properties, touched more than 3,000 active users, and was executed with six hours of planned downtime and no disruption to live casino, hotel, or convention operations.
Can AI deliver value if your asset data isn’t trustworthy? In this episode, Bob Francis sits down with Joe Nichols from Octave to explore how knowledge graphs, data quality, AI-driven classification, and connected industrial intelligence are reshaping asset management and reliability.
AI is no longer a future vision for asset management—it’s here today. Discover how Maximo Application Suite 9.2 uses agentic AI, condition insights, health scoring, and intelligent assistants to help organizations reduce downtime, improve decision-making, and transform maintenance into a strategic advantage.
Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technologies continue to be deployed across industries to improve asset visibility, support predictive maintenance initiatives, and enhance reliability performance. Over the past several years, I have been involved in deploying connected asset technologies across large industrial fleets operating in North America, South America, Asia, and the Middle East.
Today, Emerson announced the release of its Emerson Synchros™ Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) platform, a new suite of technologies that expands asset health visibility and improves maintenance decisions through a flexible wireless architecture designed for rapid deployment across existing facilities.
RDI Technologies, the global leader in vision-based motion analysis, todayannounced the launch of its new flagship product platform, the IrisaiOne™. As the next-generation successor to the IrisM and Iris MX, the Iris ai One™ is the world’s first all-in-one solution to combine a new camera hardware, the IrisMA™, with AI-driven insights and accelerometer precision. The platform is powered by TrueSight™, our new suite of software modules, and highlights exactly what we mean by "Seeing is Believing".
Schneider Electric, a global leader in energy management and automation, today announces that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of Cognite Holding B.V. (“Cognite”), a leading provider of industrial data and AI software, in an all cash transaction valued at $3.1 billion.
Honeywell Technologies (NASDAQ: HON) today announced it has completed the previously announced spin-off of its Aerospace Technologies business, which now operates as Honeywell Aerospace. Honeywell Technologies will continue to trade “regular way” on the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) under the ticker symbol “HON,” and shares of Honeywell Aerospace common stock will begin trading “regular way” on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “HONA,” effective at the market opening today.