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Rockwell Automation Threat Detection Services Ups Industrial SecurityRecently introduced threat detection services from Rockwell Automation (Milwaukee) are designed to help plants monitor, detect, and respond to increasingly complex security threats. Created specifically for industrial networks, the offering maps normal network behavior, and uses the manufacturer’s monitoring services to detect and alert personnel of irregularities and potential threats in real time. According to Rockwell Automation, integrating industrial-security software from providers that understand operational functions within industrial protocols […]
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ABB Ability Enterprise Analytics Dives Ever Deeper into OGC DataAccording to ABB (Aberdeen, Scotland), its launch of ABB Ability Enterprise Analytics not only allows operations in the oil, gas, and chemicals (OGC) sector to dive deep into their reams of data, it provides a common (“joined-up”) view of the analytics for all concerned, from CEO-level executives down through production-site maintenance personnel. Leveraging ABB’s Ability platform, the company’s digital […]
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ON THE FLOOR
Each month we talk with maintenance and technology professionals about their views and pressing problems on the factory floor.
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Playing the Blame Game: What Wastes Your Time?Who among us isn’t as efficient in our personal and work lives as we would like? Who can’t identify any number of things that, whether they are within our control or otherwise, are eating into our efficiency? That’s what we asked our Reader Panelists to discuss this month.
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Moving the Ball Forward with Asset Management ProcessesAsset management comes down to having the right plant floor technology — sensors — for your machines and work cells, but also having the right processes from a management point of view. That’s what ISO 55000 is all about and James Reyes-Picknell, the principal consultant at Conscious Asset talks with James Kovacevic about this subject on this podcast, […]
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Put Portable Filter Carts to WorkDon’t set up a lube program without one or more of these multi-taskers. The ability to control contamination is an important aspect of any lubrication-management program, especially where lubricant cleanliness is concerned. A constant supply of clean oil is essential to lubricant life and, more important, bearing life. One of the most efficient and practical […]
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Final Thought: What Is Asset Management?By Dr. Klaus M. Blache, Univ. of Tennessee, Reliability & Maintainability Center
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Low-Cost, Zero-Meeting ImprovementsPlant tours are high on my list of things to do. They feed my natural curiosity to learn how things are made and the roles people play in manufacturing. I also get to learn about the little things that people do that often make a big difference. Recently I hit the mother lode and was […]
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DCIM Deployment Drives EfficienciesData-center-infrastructure-management software helps Sandia National Labs keep up with the growing scale and complexity of its operations. For more than 60 years, Sandia National Laboratories (sandia.gov, Albuquerque) has delivered essential science and technology to resolve the nation’s most challenging security issues. As a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC), Sandia has the vision “to […]
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SAP Tips and Tricks: Which Maintenance Plan Solution is Best for You?SAP offers four different types of maintenance plans: Single Cycle, the easiest form in which you define exactly one time-based maintenance plan. Single Counter, defines exactly one performance-based plan. Multiple Cycle Strategy, used to show complex maintenance cycles. Once created, you can create a maintenance strategy for which you define the cycles through maintenance packages. […]
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Webinar | How to Move Towards Analyzed Plant DataIn the August print issue of Maintenance Technology, I touched on the “holy grail” of industrial manufacturing communications: OPC UA. This industrial communications standard has been solving sturdy obstacles in sharing operational and predictive maintenance information for years, and is now pushing data to enterprise cloud analytics, such as Microsoft Azure Platform or integrating into […]
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Moving the Ball Forward with Asset Management Processes
Asset management comes down to having the right plant floor technology — sensors — for your machines and work cells, but also having the right processes from a management point of view. That’s what ISO 55000 is all about and James Reyes-Picknell, the principal consultant at Conscious Asset talks with James Kovacevic about this subject on this podcast, […]
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Crack the Code on Lube Faults, FailuresDetecting and trending these occurrences can help boost asset reliability. One of the most powerful yet misunderstood and underused tools in many asset-management-software programs seems to be the fault- or failure-diagnosis section. That’s surprising, given the fact this feature is specifically designed to help users identify and classify asset or system faults or failures. Fault […]
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Understand Lube ID SystemsMake sure you’re pumping the correct lubricant into your bearings.
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Emerson DeltaV PK Controller Reflects Several Industry ‘Firsts’According to Emerson (Austin, TX), the launch of its DeltaV PK Controller makes the advanced automation of the company’s DeltaV distributed control system (DCS) available to fast-growth industries that have traditionally been less reliant on large-scale automation. This next-generation controller provides scalable control for all process industries, particularly parts of the life sciences, Oil & Gas, petrochemical, […]
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