by James Reyes-Picknell | May 3, 2021 | Maintenance Tactics, Technology
Get it right on paper before attempting to computerize and automate. The Work Management Process. One of the biggest uses of IIoT, ML, and AI in the industry (so far) is in the field of condition monitoring and forecasting times to failure. IIoT devices deployed on...
by James Reyes-Picknell | Apr 27, 2021 | Maintenance Tactics, Technology
Tech is needed, but do not focus only on the tool – implementation is key. For my musical aspirations that means the acquisition of a tool (the instrument), making sure it is set up correctly (tuning and positioning), investment in lessons and practice, using it...
by James Reyes-Picknell | Apr 24, 2021 | Maintenance Tactics, Technology
Digital transformation for huge potential business benefit uses the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Machine Learning (ML) combined. Like any technology or tool, they must be used correctly or the results you want will be...
by James Reyes-Picknell | Mar 26, 2021 | KPIs & Performance Management, Maintenance Tactics, Reliability, Technology
Asset Performance management is a vast expansion on the highly successful concepts of Condition Monitoring and Condition Based Maintenance. It goes well beyond machine monitoring and uses correlations that maintainers often don’t even think about to truly...
by James Reyes-Picknell | Sep 12, 2020 | Business Case & Finance, Executive Insights, Management Insights, Reliability, UPTIME
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” This axiom arose when Benjamin Franklin was speaking about health care. It also applies to large industrial organizations that invest from millions to billions in equipment (capital assets). Unfortunately, only a...