Predictions on Predictive Maintenance: it will fail… unless
There has been a tremendous fuss about Predictive maintenance this summer. Consulting firms and sensors suppliers seem to rediscover maintenance after so many years of staying carefully away from this complex – and often non-bankable – topic. Time has changed now, and thanks to the limitless power of AI and IoT ubiquity, the maintenance nut will soon be cracked (possibly by a cobot nutcracker).
read moreOperational Excellence & Continuous Improvement: Baosteel Gases Excellence Maintenance Management (EMM) system goes on-line
In April 2016, Baosteel Gases selected Siveco’s Coswin 8i for their Excellent Maintenance Management System (EMMS) project, aimed at strengthening the company’s reliability and maintenance excellence program. Its first phase, to establish a maintenance “core model” with guidelines applicable to all sites, was completed in June.
read moreBig Data: the dream and the reality
Further to our GM’s article about Maintenance 4.0, I have received many interesting comments. The spirit of our Maintenance 4.0 initiative is to put fancy concepts into real, hands-on, industrial practice. Too often, companies are lost in a dream and little gets done in reality. Recently we see that some of our customers or prospects talk a lot about Big Data. Everyone talks about Big Data of course. Especially large IT and consulting companies… chasing Big Money.
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