predictive maintenance Articles
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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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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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The Importance of Lubricant and Fluidanalysis in Predictive Maintenance
Immediate Benefit of In-service Oil Analysis Lubricants are the life blood of oil wetted machinery. As an important element of predictive maintenance technologies, in-service oil analysis can provide trace information about machine wear condition, lubricant contamination as well as lubricant condition (Figure 1). Reliability engineers and maintenance professionals can make maintenance decisions ...
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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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The Free University of Brussels & Hydrobox - partners in developing SMART power plants
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the area of computer science that emphasizes the creation of intelligent machines that work and react like humans. Already at a very young age, Professor Johan Loeckx became interested in artificial intelligence, which eventually led him to a career at the renowned Artificial Intelligence Lab of the Free University of Brussels. While also interested in ...
By HydroBox NV
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Real-World Benefits of Energy-Saving Smart Buildings
Conventional buildings aren’t very efficient. There’s no way to see where and when you use the most energy. It’s hard to adjust conditions when more visitors or fewer workers are in the building. Waste, it seems, is inevitable, and it’s impossible to make significant savings a reality.In contrast, a smart building uses advanced technologies to control the environment and improve efficiency. What ...
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What extended functionalities will smart energy meters have?
As the core component of modern energy management systems, smart energy meters have already brought significant changes and efficiency improvements in many aspects. However, with the rapid development of technology and continuous innovation, smart energy meters may potentially have disruptive functionalities in the future, which will completely change our understanding of electricity usage and ...
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Neurobotz - A Smart Residential Power Optimizer
NEUROBOTZ (A GreenBrilliance product) is an AI-based Intelligent Transformer Technology, a state-of-the-art way of changing how incoming electric power is distributed and utilized in residential homes. It is connected in series within the loads on the electrical circuit. The predictive analytics algorithm creates an optimal load curve and controls the incoming power flow to reduce the amount of ...
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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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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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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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Optimizing PV Operations & Maintenance crucial to reducing LCOE in the US
The solar PV industry in the United States is expected to install 2.86GW of photovoltaic systems by the end of 2012. As the project pipeline continues to grow, and as more plants come online, experts predict that operations and maintenance will play an increasing role in reducing the Levelized Cost of Energy for utility scale systems. Successfully operating PV plants and maximizing each ...
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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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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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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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Wind turbine controlling of the future
Higher, more robust, more reliable: Parallel to the growing requirements for wind turbines, the requirements for monitoring sensors grow as well. But how can wind sensor manufacturers fulfil these wishes? And how should a future wind sensors look like? After analysing the current conditions and trends on the wind energy market, our CEO Klaus Hirzel compiled a wish list for future wind sensors. ...
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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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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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Rising offshore plant capacities lead to greater data-based O&M gains
The growing size of offshore wind farms provides greater scope for data optimisation during Operations and Maintenance, while software solutions can also help mitigate risk during the development phase, Marcus Ihle, Senior Consultant at Outsmart, said. Further gains could be made if operators share more data from their growing databases with other plant owners, Ihle said. The Levelized Cost of ...
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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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