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5G offers the low latency, high reliability, and high bandwidth demanded by manufacturing processes. Though not yet ready to fully orchestrate production manufacturing processes, it is rapidly evolving. A very insightful event by 5G Manufacturing Forum! Thank you to all the organizers of this event. (https://www.5gmanufacturingforum.com/) Here are a few key takeaways – Key use-cases for…

Condition Based Monitoring Condition Based Monitoring is a maintenance strategy that allows to monitor the actual condition of an asset, extracting information to understand the machines’ actual wear, degradation and if a relevant change has occurred. CMB Process CMB is often employed in monitoring discreet components of an industrial system suchas motor, fan, pump, mixer,…

Prognostic Maintenance Prognostic maintenance (also known as condition-based maintenance, predictive maintenance, or simply prognostics) is the ability to know the condition of equipment, and to plan and perform maintenance accordingly before a critical failure Motivation A motivation for carrying out regular maintenance is well established in culture. However, the cost of a maintenance activity, or the…

‘Digital Transformation, Industrial IoT, ML, AI, Analytics’ .. buzzwords, but where does one begin? Digital .. What? What’s digital transformation?  “Rise in cloud-technologies, smartphone and app adoption led to traditional organizations stuck with non-scalable, cost-ineffective, non-extendable systems and methods”  Digital Transformation ‘was’ (well, ‘is’ to be precise) the use of digital platforms and services in-order…