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Harnessing the Power of Machine Health: Past, Present, and Future Potential
Hey folks! I'm Cliff West, a solutions architect at Augury. I recently put together an article on how you can harness the power of machine health, how it's been done, and how it's being done now. It discusses how advancements in sensor technology and AI have revolutionized predictive maintenance through "Machine Health."…
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Intermittent Faults & A Valuable Lesson Learned
A recent post by Samanth Isin related to cavitation really hit home with me. Early in my refinery career I was trying to solve a problem where a really expensive pump and gearbox was getting wrecked, and replaced in-kind, approximately every 6 weeks. While the refinery employed a very sophisticated Honeywell TDC…
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Thinking Beyond the Fix
Good afternoon Community! It should be no surprise that one of the biggest justifications for deploying machine health solutions is the proven reduction of unlanned downtime and the risks associated with catestrophic failure. These are huge wins for any manufacturing or producing operation. However, even with these newly…
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Implementing Augury Solution vs In-house Vibration Routes
What are the advantages and disadvantages of having an internal program and technicians executing vibration monitoring routes? How do they stack up to implementing the Augury solution for machine health?
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Pick the Right Product Offering
In this article I will be focusing on the Machine Health Portfolio. Halo CR (Critical), as the name suggests, is meant for critical equipment at the plant. It's perfect for rotating assets, which do not have redundancy. Failure could cause unplanned downtime or safety, environmental, or quality concerns. Halo provides 24/7…
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Production Health and Becoming Prescriptive
Afternoon to the Community! Many of my posts to this community have been about the power and value of Production Health (prior post included at the bottom). It is a subject that can be a bit abstract especially to those that are primarily focused on the very necessary maintenance function. However, I wanted to raise this…
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Always Report Changes to Machine Information fields
Similar to last week's Best Practice article, this week focuses on ensuring accurate information is fed into our algorithms and analysts so they can return the most accurate diagnostics. Rather than data from the hardware, this time let’s consider the machine information fields. Near the top of the machine page, there is a…