Thinking From My Heart

Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) the future of Proactive Maintenance Management In the last couple of years there has been a clamour for Prescriptive and Predictive Maintenance to move away from traditional Time Based Maintenance to Condition Based Maintenance especially in Asset heavy Industry Verticals of Oil & Gas, Petrochemicals , Power and Metal Mines Minerals. For sometime now Industry experts have been advocating use of Data Driven technology combined with Advance Analytics to gain insights into Asset behaviour its diagnostics vide data that gets captured in Process Systems and other systems like Vibration Monitoring Systems and use it for decision making. Typically analytics is used for smart notifications and alerts to give a window of opportunity to the Operations and Maintenance Team to pre-empt anomalies in advance in any asset condition before it turns into a catastrophe. But how you consume these Early Warning Notifications / Alerts sets the tone...

AI –AR the future of Maintenance in Manufacturing Arena Nearly a decade ago 2002 to be precise a cyber action thriller by the name of “Minority Report” starring Hollywood’s superstar Tom Cruise and directed by the Sci-Fi master Steven Spielberg was released and went on to become that years blockbuster movie. The theme was very unique and unusual. Set primarily in Washington, D.C., and Northern Virginia in the year 2054, where  PreCrime , a specialized police department, apprehends criminals based on  foreknowledge  (predictive analysis) provided by three psychics called " precogs ". The cast includes  Tom Cruise  as Chief of PreCrime John Anderton,  Colin Farrell  as  Department of Justice  agent Danny Witwer,  Samantha Morton  as the senior precog Agatha, and  Max von Sydow  as Anderton's superior Lamar Burgess. The film combines elements of  tech noir ,  whodunit ,  thriller  and...