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  • Base Maintenance On Data

    Use these four steps to implement predictive analytics in your preventive-maintenance program. Industry 4.0 is in full swing and the manufacturing leaders in this era will be companies that are leveraging predictive analytics to create a comprehensive, digital preventive-maintenance program to ensure operations are delivering peak performance. Unplanned downtime, caused by machine failure, has been,…

  • Eliminate Data Access Uncertainty

    Data collection and analytics projects work best when you follow proven, traditional automation concepts. One of the best ways for manufacturers to move beyond a simplistic and superficial view of production is to obtain high-integrity data from the factory floor and then analyze and visualize it to obtain data-driven operational insights. Effectively gathering and assimilating…

  • Champion Good Lube Practices

    The power of one person, dedicated to a quality program, can result in long-term gains in asset reliability. When on site at a plant, a quarry, a municipality, or any company/entity that uses lubricants, it’s easy to spot inefficiency and poor management and, alternately, good management practices. The most obvious is organization and care. In…

  • Compress Air, Recover Heat

    The heat that’s generated by your air-compression system can be used in a variety of ways. Generating compressed air typically consumes as much as 10% of a plant’s total energy cost. This energy usage can be kept in check by patching leaks, regular maintenance, or by using capacity-control technology to help match air output with…

  • Built to Serve and Endure

    Recreation and community centres are important hubs that serve many roles for an area’s residents, whether it’s playing host to weekly fitness classes, providing key social services, or acting as a shelter during an extreme weather event. Given the range of uses these large public facilities exist to fulfill, a lot goes into their planning…

  • Doubling Down on Impact Reporting

      U.S. companies that conduct significant business in Europe are in for the strategic and compliance challenge of a lifetime. Accustomed to doing their best to provide sustainability information to investors via voluntary reporting frameworks, they must now prepare to adopt a rigorous sustainability reporting regime and wrap their collective minds around a new concept:…