Preventive maintenance is a critical function of a maintenance department. The equipment and machines used for production are a manufacturing or industrial operation’s lifeblood. Equipment shutdowns means products not being made or delivered to customers. Have you ever had this happen

There are many benefits of preventive maintenance software for manufacturing plants. However, in quite a few manufacturing companies higher management tends to see maintenance as a necessary evil! A cost center that adds little value. They may even see the maintenance team not as a crucial part

Well organized maintenance programs have a clear equipment maintenance workflow (see the diagram below). For instance a workflow with the following steps: External users or customers send in maintenance work requests. We schedule this maintenance work as well as preventive maintenance and cre

Are you are in the process of selecting maintenance management software for your maintenance repair and operations? Certainly it can be quite a challenge! One may have cut down the list of the CMMS programs to a handful of suitable products. Therefore it is now time for trials of the mainten

With the Senseye beta under way, this post provides a quick introduction to using our product. It will demonstrate the simplicity of adding sensors to Senseye, in order for Senseye to automatically start building insights from data and to start building dashboards. Even if you don’t yet

IoT meets Industry  No doubt you’ve heard of the IoT – it’s seems hard to miss these days. Now we also have Industrial IoT - in vogue for describing its applicability to the broader industrial sector. The IoT will make new data available in ways we couldn’t imagine before; it wil

Predicting machine failure sounds great (and it is!). Whilst we always try to minimize any pain in getting set up, it’s important to realize that predicting failure is driven by data and in order to make the predictions useful and reliable, the data from your machinery needs to be of a

Or rather how the Industrial Internet of Things helps Predictive Maintenance (maintaining a machine before it breaks down and causes downtime).  It’s no secret that predictive maintenance is a tricky subject. The idea of being able to maintain your machines, just before they are a

When talking to people we’ve found that the terms Preventative and Predictive can often mentally overlap; yet there’s such a marked difference in implementation techniques and real-world effects that it’s important to clearly define both before we get into their pros, cons and why Predi

Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things (or Industrial Internet of Things if you prefer) are so closely related that we may as well use the terms interchangeably. Every day there seems to be some news about the Internet of Things and how it’s going to change everything – connected cars,

Predictive maintenance sounds great – maintain your assets, before they show outward signs of failure and cause unplanned downtime (loss of revenue), whilst spending less money than you would for a preventative maintenance program – boosting profitability and throughput. The benefits ar

Servitization is a relatively new term in the industrial sector but it’s quickly picking up a following; with The Manufacturer magazine even dedicating a whole series of conferences to it. In a sentence, it’s the concept that any product / offering, can be delivered ‘as a service’ (e.g.

“You can’t fix something that isn’t broken” used to be the philosophy of traditional Reactive Maintenance, many years ago. Help was only called for once a machine had completely failed. Completing reports, locating or ordering replacement parts and assembling the required maintenance e

Digitalization is the buzzword of the moment. It seems like every week, an industrial company announced a new ‘Head of Digitalization’ – how long before we see the Harvard Business Review call it the new ‘sexiest job’ as they once did with Data Science (now 6 years ago if you can b

In a competitive marketplace, enhancing machine reliability by implementing a condition monitoring (CM) program can make all the difference in helping to reduce operational costs. Promising to slash machine downtime, extend asset life and cut maintenance costs, CM has a lot to live up t

Senseye, a provider of predictive maintenance software, today announced that it has joined the Partner EcoSphere at OSIsoft, a leader in operational intelligence, to deliver its automated condition monitoring product to help PI System customers on their digital transformation journey.

Senseye, the industrial software company, today announced that its suite of technologies and methodologies are being rolled out in automotive manufacturing facilities in the U.S. Senseyes technology suite, Senseye PdM, is used by global automotive manufacturers to monitor the condition

Challenge drives innovation. With offshore oil and gas, that challenge comes down to achieving the right balance between high levels of uptime and output. Without delaying maintenance critical to the safety of the production process. Pressure on profit has led some providers to delay n

Preventing breakdowns by predicting the condition and maintenance requirements of industrial assets is a massive challenge. The world of data science is full of models that struggle to deliver results in real-world environments. So, what is the best approach? Theory and practice In the

As the investment in digital transformation projects continues to grow, so does the number of failed initiatives. How can companies maximize their chances of success?  A wave of digital transformation projects has swept through industry in recent years, as a combina