Predictive Maintenance Articles
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4 Challenges Maintenance Teams Face
Our customers come from a wide range of industries, but they share many of the same pain points in their facilities. Over the years, we’ve consulted our customers to better understand these pain points and how our technology solutions can help to alleviate them. ...
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Building for a Sustainable Future: The Role of IoT and Smart Technologies in Facilities Management
The pandemic and what followed have further highlighted the importance of smart buildings and the need for remote management capabilities. In this context, building managers and owners need to stay updated with the latest smart technologies and innovations to remain relevant in the competitive facilities industry. This article will explore how smart technologies, IoT, and efficiency evolution ...
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How an Australian environmental coastal restoration project was kept on track using Acoem Eagle condition monitoring
Acoem has been providing condition monitoring and maintenance solutions to a major civil contracting company in South Australia for close to a decade. When the company needed assistance with a longstanding issue it was experiencing with its pumping equipment on an environmental restoration project, commissioning an Eagle wireless system was the answer. Structural damage to critical machinery ...
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Quality control of semiconductor wafer pretreatment processes with online NIRS
Semiconductors are the fundamental components of modern electronic goods. Cleanliness is crucial inside of a semiconductor fabrication facility, considering the scale of the working surfaces (nanometers). Contaminants of all types can result in defects, leading manufacturers to implement extremely strict and precise production control procedures with high reproducibility, especially during one ...
By Metrohm AG
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6 Common Mistakes in your Predictive Maintenance Plan
Carrying out a predictive maintenance plan is a smart way to avoid future costs, you know that. And in order to do this, you will need predictive maintenance software and a plan. But what are the most common mistakes made in a maintenance programme of this type? Here is a list of the 6 most common errors made by building managers and/or facility managers. What is a Predictive Maintenance Plan? ...
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5 Technologies to Extend Utility Energy Services
Utilities in deregulated markets are under more pressure than ever to attract and retain customers and are therefore more motivated to consider new technologies to extend their energy services offering. In our previous articles regarding the Future-Proof Utility, we discussed digitalisation and client loyalty as a push for innovation, and the importance of a customer-centric approach. While both ...
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6 reasons smart grids need green, digital and more secure ring main units (RMU)
Globally, every industry is accelerating decarbonization initiatives. Buildings and factories are becoming more electrified by replacing fossil-fuel-based heating and processes. As more renewable energy is progressively added to the power grid, the grid itself must take steps to decarbonize. The SF6 greenhouse gas currently has a unique use exemption in insulating medium-voltage (MV) electrical ...
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Every Little Helps on the Path to Carbon Neutrality
Reversing cameras, left, right and centre mirrors … a glance over your shoulder can still be what makes that all essential difference. So too with building energy performance. It is probably best to just assume that your building has an energy performance blind spot. The next steps are to find it and then fix it. This was our approach to Tesco’s National Distribution Centre when ...
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How digitalizing your critical power distribution delivers a fast and massive ROI
In the previous two posts in this series, we’ve looked at the hidden risks that make managing critical power facilities so challenging. We’ve also seen how digitalizing electrical power distribution networks trends mean you no longer have to ‘work blind.’ Connected smart devices sharing data with cloud or facility-based software and mobile apps help shine a bright light on ...
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Distribution Sector Reforms – Time is no Longer a Luxury
The Covid-19 pandemic brought the power distribution sector to a tipping point—reform or perish. On the demand side, the shifting of demand load patterns across consumer categories impacted the revenues of distribution companies (Discoms) because of reduced commercial and industrial demand. On the supply side, the increasing quantum of renewable energy from solar and wind tested the ...
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Inventory Management & Predictive Maintenance Solution for Global Beverages Company - Case Study
Client Introduction & Business Requirements: Our client is a multinational beverages company offering over 500 brands across 200 countries and territories. They have a huge inventory of coolers which are deployed at their customer locations worldwide. These coolers need to be regularly serviced and assigned to the right location. They also need to be refurbished with stock on a periodic ...
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Reasons to be Thankful for PdM Technologists
This is the season to be grateful for the people and things in our lives that make life easier, more productive, safer and even more enjoyable. Gratitude makes life less stressful and can be used as a way to recognize those we appreciate and care about. There are benefits to being grateful for both individuals and companies. It is with that thought in mind that UE Systems wants to express ...
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Capacity-hungry solar owners deploy tech to curb growing pains
Fast-growing U.S. solar operators are using automated systems, centralized spare parts networks and advanced monitoring solutions to minimize labor and operations costs, company officials told the PV Operations USA conference. Rapid growth in solar installations and intense price competition is presenting new challenges for fleet operators. Utility-scale installations are forecast to hit a ...
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Invenergy equips solar services teams for 3 GW growth push
Invenergy is developing in-house analytics to accelerate growth in solar services and predicts more complex roles and wider technology knowledge within maintenance teams, Brad Purtell, Director, Services Business Development at Invenergy, told New Energy Update. As U.S. solar costs fall and installations surge, developers are expanding operations and maintenance (O&M) divisions to gain a ...
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As Europe extends turbine lifespans, data becomes crucial
Ageing wind assets, growing corporate demand and limited appetite for full repowering are favoring lifetime extension projects, increasing the importance of performance analysis. European lifetime extension (LTE) activity is set to hike in the coming years as feed-in tariffs expire and wind operators seek to maximize revenues from ageing assets. Around 4 GW/year of European wind turbine ...
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PV owners urged to use tech advances, retrofits to hike yield
Solar operators must capitalize on new panel coating and analytics technologies and optimize retrofit and repowering strategies to boost competitiveness, Mate Heisz, lead coordinator of new European solar O&M best practice guidelines, told New Energy Update. As capital costs fall and subsidies end, solar plant owners are seeking to reduce operations and maintenance (O&M) costs to gain ...
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Turbine suppliers invest in multi-brand services as competition mounts
Wind turbine suppliers are investing in supply chain solutions and combining new technologies with data advantages to win service contracts for third-party turbines, leading suppliers told the Wind Operations Dallas 2019 conference. As intense price competition squeezes margins, turbine suppliers are targeting a greater share of the growing operations and maintenance (O&M) market. ...
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Wind turbine technology leaps set to slice maintenance costs
Self-diagnosing turbines, real-time output maximization and “crane less” maintenance will soon impact wind operations, cutting labour costs and increasing generation revenue, Denver Bane, Onshore Wind Services Strategy Leader at GE Renewable Energy, told the Wind Operations Dallas 2019 conference. Intense competition in the wind market is spurring turbine developers to find new ...
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High voltage switchgear SF6 maintenance – Case Study
Just like the main circuit breaker in your home, city grids have main on/off switches called switchgears. When these high voltage switchgears open or close, huge "lightning-like" arcs of electricity are created. If not maintained correctly, these sparks can causewidespread power outages and pose a safety risk. To avoid these dangerous sparks, power companies have traditionally filled the sealed ...
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Bacsoft and Sys Tec Electronic developed predictive maintenance solution on industrial grade hardware
We recently spent time in Germany and Switzerland introducing a new innovative analog energy monitoring device with our partner, Sys Tec Electronic, a German company that manufactures high quality hardware. Together, we launched our innovative industry 4.0 product combining the best of German industrial grade hardware with our own smart Israeli IoT software. Our newest cutting edge product is ...
By Bacsoft
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