We see digital transformations all around us in our daily lives—music, streaming movies and shows, transportation, etc. But what about in our world of manufacturing and production that relies on the tried and true? Many initiatives are underway as pilots and successes...
Will Goetz
Fostering Organizational Collaboration in the Life Sciences
As automation technologies continue to incorporate commercial off the shelf technologies and cybersecurity concerns grow, the need for manufacturers' Information Technology (IT), Operational Technology (OT) and Quality teams to collaborate grows. In a PharmTech...
Three Steps to Prescriptive Maintenance
Process manufacturers and producers practice many forms of maintenance as part of their efforts toward more reliable operations. These include reactive, preventive, predictive and most recently thanks the advancements in the Industrial Internet of Things...
Organizational Readiness for Top Quartile Reliability Performance
As the technology and work practices have progressed, so has reliability practices from reactive to preventive to predictive maintenance (PdM). In a Plant Engineering article, The path to prescriptive maintenance, Emerson's Will Goetz describes prescriptive...
Overcoming Obstacles in Reducing Unplanned Downtime
Unplanned downtime remains the top issue for most process manufacturers and producers. At the ARC Industry Forum, ARC's Craig Resnick led a panel, Strategies to Reduce Downtime and Increase Plant KPIs. Emerson's Will Goetz participated in the panel to discuss the...
The Path to Reliable Performance
Whether it's your car or an asset in your production facility, running it to failure can be costly, unsafe and inconvenient. In terms of maintenance reliability, the U.S. National Response center noted that "…it costs 50% more to repair a broken component than one...
Maximizing Plant Asset Performance
In the face of scarce capital for manufacturers and producers across many industries, optimizing the performance of existing assets often increases in priority. In an ARC Advisory Group whitepaper, Driving Maximum Asset Capability (summary), author Dick Hill notes: In...
Driving Maintenance Workflows with Condition Monitoring
At the Emerson Exchange conference in Austin, Emerson's Will Goetz presented, Best Practices for Using Condition Monitoring to Drive Maintenance Workflows. His abstract: A well designed condition monitoring system can find the early warning signs of failures but what...
Reliability Consulting and Lifecycle Services
At the Emerson Exchange conference in Austin, Emerson's Sean Sims and Will Goetz teamed up to give an update on the reliability consulting process and the host of lifecycle services to improve operational performance for process manufacturers and producers. Sean...
Condition Monitoring and Workflow Best Practices
This year's Emerson Exchange conference for the Americas will take place on my home turf of Austin, Texas during the week of October 24 through 28. Registration is open and you can save $400 through the end of August on the registration fee. Knowing that getting...
Reliability Program Success through Direct Engagement for Organizational Culture Change
Fear of change is often the leading obstacle of progress. For process manufacturers and producers, reliability-centered maintenance concepts have been around since the 1970s. Technology advancements in sensors and wireless communications have vastly improved the...
IIoT Devices and Work Management Processes in Reliable Operations
Reliable process manufacturing and production is one of the pillars of top performing companies. In the ARC Advisory Group's Industrial IoT/Industrie 4.0 Viewpoints blog, IBM guest blogger Jim Crosskey highlights the role of the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)....
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