Planning, managing and expanding the transition to Industry 4.0 and selling it to the executive level of an organization are skill sets that most reliability and maintenance (R&M) practitioners don’t possess.
Sitting in the back of a crowded room at a conference of 300+ motor testing professionals in the mid-90s, I listened to an impressive presentation from a former submariner who served on the USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine in the U.S. Navy fleet. That man was Jack Nicholas, Jr.
SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Arizona Public Service (APS) announced that they have significantly scaled their investment in wireless PdM (predictive maintenance) with Petasense (www.petasense.com), a Silicon Valley based venture-backed leader in Industrial IoT.
[St. Louis, Mo, 8/14/19] The Electrical Apparatus Service Association (EASA) honored Steve Skenzick of HPS Electric Apparatus Sales & Service in Roseburg, OR, as the 2019 recipient of the EASA Exceptional Achievement Service Award.
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If you work for an asset intensive organization and your role involves ensuring value from assets, you are unlikely to organize the world by software applications as software marketing professionals or software analysts’ do in order to describe these applications and functions to chief information officers, IT leaders or other chief officers.
CENTENNIAL, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE:ARW) today announced it has teamed with IBM (NYSE: IBM) and National Instruments (Nasdaq: NATI) to offer a predictive maintenance suite that enables data-driven operations in factories, oil and gas plants, mines and other rugged environments.
EVERETT, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fluke Corp., the global leader in test and measurement instruments, has acquired Ismaning, Germany-based PRÜFTECHNIK, a market leader in precision laser shaft alignment, condition monitoring, and non-destructive testing.
[St. Louis, MO, July 18, 2019] How to Add Building Envelope Inspections to a Maintenance Program. Building inspections don’t seem to get the respect they deserve, as people often think they’re a waste of time or are unnecessary. Maybe it’s because inspections are usually used to find small problems, and people don’t want to take the time to look for problems where there appear to be none. That is exactly why building inspections are so powerful.
Looking for a ROI on your lubrication program? Ed Duda, Associate Technical Consultant with Des-Case Corporation, discusses the importance of strategizing and protecting your lubrication lifetime.
Get a handle on the continuous changes and situations surrounding vibration. Dan Ambre discusses how the Vibration Elements: Machinery Diagnostics Faults and online training can help.
[Everett, Washington, June 18, 2019] – “Give the customer more than they expect” is the philosophy that John Fluke built his company on — and that still drives it today. In that spirit, Fluke has revamped its entire line of industrial thermal cameras with more premium features packed into every model, providing higher value for the customer and allowing the company to reduce the number of cameras it offers to simplify the buying process.
In manufacturing, a smart plant refers to a connected digital factory. However, when you look inside a typical plant today, you often see older infrastructure and assets. Common challenges that prevent manufacturers from achieving smart, fully connected plants can range from location – remote facilities sometimes without even basic Internet service or low connectivity – to issues of older assets that aren’t inherently IIoT-enabled. In the industrial world, these environments lead to stranded assets and up to 40 percent of a plant’s assets fall into this category.
EDMONTON (January 22, 2019) – Seplat Petroleum Development Company, a leading independent upstream exploration and production company based in Nigeria, has chosen the Visions software from Metegrity as their Asset Integrity Management (AIM) system.
Cologne – Specialty chemicals company LANXESS has taken a new test bench for additivated hydraulic fluids into operation at its Mannheim site. It is being used to test the additive package Additin RC 9200 N, as well as other fluids. These high-performance additives are used to formulate hydraulic fluids that are utilized in large commercial vehicles such as excavators, combine harvesters, or construction vehicles.
Los Altos, CA [May 14, 2019] - SymphonyAI Group announced today its recent acquisition of Azima Global, a provider of machine condition monitoring and asset reliability solutions across several industrial verticals.
[AUSTIN, TEXAS, May 13, 2019] — PeakVue™ Plus, a technology enhancement that brings prescriptive analytics to the field to help users improve the availability of rotating machinery. The firmware streamlines the path from data collection to action and enables users to make timely, corrective decisions when analyzing machinery vibration.