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Greg joined his brothers at Bentley Systems in 1991. Keith A. Bentley and Barry J. Bentley founded Bentley Systems in 1984. Bentley Systems is an American-based software development company that develops software and services for the design, construction, and operation and reliability of infrastructure.
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.
A native of Lajas, Puerto Rico, Vilma Rosado joined the workforce as a process engineer in the electronics industry in 1998. Over the next 20 years, she has worked for the U.S. government, Hewlett-Packard, Johnson & Johnson and now as a Senior Manager level, individual contributor at BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Inc. Vilma is passionate about high performance teams and assets, and has a continuous commitment and interest in reliability engineering and asset management.
In any process automation & control industry, the most widely used control algorithm is proportional-integral-derivative (PID), according to National Instruments. PID control has been widely adopted throughout industrial control markets, dating back to the beginning of trying to optimize any process.
Reliability engineering is about predicting failures and providing ground for decision-making related to preventive maintenance optimization (PMO), lifecycle costing, spare parts forecasting, and reliability, availability and maintainability (RAM) modeling. Different tools are available to the reliability engineer for such levels of predictions. The benefit of these tools comes from proper planning and management plans to cope with future issues.
Organizations that aggressively pursue operational excellence have the best opportunity for enhanced profitability. They also realize value provided from a purpose-built computerized maintenance management system (CMMS), precisely configured to extract knowledge and manage by exception. However, the CMMS is only as good as the surrounding process and roles. Hence, a comprehensive plan is needed that encompasses the entire asset management system to enhance reliability, workforce productivity and job safety.
The evolution of OT is meteoric. Today, a proliferation of connected devices can monitor asset condition and performance, along with operational conditions. The information captured from these devices enables operational optimization. It can also prevent unplanned downtime through early detection of impending failures, allowing corrective actions to be planned.
Many Americans believe that American manufacturing is a relic of the past, rusting abandoned profession where weary men and women drudge through the day performing a single task for hours on end.
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