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The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) will revolutionize companies with cost, operational, and safety efficiencies. It will break silos that finally connects people, data, and processes from the boardroom to the operations floor. While this overwhelms companies in moving from traditional maintenance practices, prescriptive maintenance now have analytics that show if a piece of equipment is headed for trouble and can prescribe prioritized, pre-determined, expert-driven mitigation or repair.
Eliminating downtime is the most commonly cited benefit of IIoT, but this only occurs when companies move away from old habits such as reactive and preventive maintenance. It is time to embrace culture and process change and learn to how to act on detailed information that predicts asset failure.
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About the Author:
Will Goetz is the vice president of Operational Certainty Consulting for Emerson. Watch him talk about prescriptive maintenance at the IMC-2017: The 32nd International Maintenance Conference.
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