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Reducing Downtime at Wastewater Facilities with the IIoT
Estimated Read Time: 4 Minutes On February 9, 2017, a catastrophic unplanned outage occurred at the 32-acre West Point Treatment Plant in Seattle, Washington. The plant was built in 1965, and is located next to Seattle’s largest public park, and as well...
Reliability Fundamentals: The Building Blocks for a Healthy Facility
In any large factory, data center, or manufacturing facility, reliability and optimization are key. Without them, the people that they serve and the infrastructures that they support may struggle to survive, let alone thrive. At a time when almost anything can be...
The Need for Continuous Diagnostics: The Arrival of Augury Halo
We are standing in the eye of a perfect storm. To the unassuming bystander, this may seem like just another spring of AI (Artificial Intelligence) following two long winters, or a new attempt at reviving M2M (Machine 2 Machine) technology by slapping a sleek, young,...
Predictive Maintenance Man: Fans of Time
The following takes place between 6:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. on Monday, October 6, 2017. Events occur in real time. 06:00:27 a.m. Pacific Time PACIFIC HOSPITAL, LOS ANGELES. In the basement of the largest hospital in Los Angeles, Jack Bowzer, Chief Engineer and...
Optimized Budgeting with Predictive Maintenance
–Read Time: 4.5 min– When discussing Predictive Maintenance (PdM), we usually think about the benefits to maintenance engineers and technicians. Much of the discourse is about reducing the number of equipment failures, inspections, and critical...
Healthy Machines: Filling the Gaps in Preventive Maintenance with Predictive Strategies
–Read Time: 3.5 min– When is the last time you went to the doctor? If you’re like the majority of people, the answer is likely “the last time I was sick.” It’s been a recommendation for decades, though, that we see a doctor annually, regardless of if we...
The Water Cycle – Why Failure is Not an Option
–Read Time: 4 min– Eighteenth century English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge knew nothing about modern-day infrastructure, but he was astoundingly prescient when he wrote “water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink.” Coleridge, the author of the “Rime of...
Predictive vs Preventive Maintenance: Equipping Your Technicians with Tools for Success
–Read Time: 2.5 min– Mechanical service technicians know machines like the back of their hand. They can inspect a machine and quickly understand what is going on under the hood – is it functioning normally? Is something misaligned or beginning to...