Transition from Preventive to Predictive Maintenance Using Time Series Data with MAJiK Visual Factory and InfluxDB
MAJiK Systems creates software that helps manufacturing and industrial engineering companies improve their factory operations using data-driven manufacturing methods. The company designs a full suite of Visual Factory tools that use data from the machines themselves…
Why You Need a Time Series Database for Predictive Maintenance
In the industrial sector, unplanned downtime can lead to significant financial losses. Predictive maintenance offers a solution to this problem by identifying potential issues before they cause disruptions.One crucial component of an effective predictive maintenance system…
Elevating Predictive Maintenance: The Transformative Impact of IIoT
In the bustling arena of the industrial landscape, the repercussions of unplanned downtime resonate deeply. According to a study by Aberdeen Research, unplanned downtime can cost a company as much as $260,000 an hour. Such challenges…
Is predictive maintenance at a dead end?
Predictive maintenance has become a standard phrase in the equipment business and it is taking hold with OEMs. However, maintenance teams are not seeing much use for it. For them, “predictive maintenance is like chasing one’s…
How to achieve Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) using Real-time Maintenance (RtM)
What if your production equipment was always available as planned? What if your cycle time was never compromised because of a damaged machine? What if your production equipment self-detected and alerted you of quality defects?Applying Real-time…
Industry Digitalization, Data-driven Process Optimization and Environmental Best Practices
In these times, there is no doubt that the advancement of digitalization in industry makes possible connected products and processes that help people, materials, energy, plant and equipment to be more productive and efficient. The repercussions…
How to Minimize Asset Failure with Predictive Maintenance
Existing maintenance solutions limit production. With the legacy tools and processes at their disposal, manufacturers commonly take reactive or scheduled maintenance approaches that present a multitude of challenges: Existing Maintenance approaches are costly: Up to $1.3M per hour…
Maintaining Factory Efficiency in a Crisis through Remote Monitoring
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) announcement about Covid – 19 reaching pandemic levels triggered responses across the industrial world. In industrial manufacturing, shop floor activity hit its lowest levels since the Second World War and in…
7 Business Reasons to Develop a Predictive Maintenance Program
IIoT World covers predictive maintenance strategy through practitioner articles, platform comparisons, and expert sessions, including Industrial AI 2026 Summiton September 9-10, 2026, with sessions on IIoT-enabled maintenance programs. Predictive Maintenance allows you to offer new services…
How IoT Supported Maintenance Improves Product Quality
The number of possible applications of IIoT grows every day, and this trend isn’t likely to change anytime soon. The latest numbers estimate that the combined IoT markets will reach a staggering $520B by 2021.An industry…
Remote Machine Monitoring: A Game-Changer for Machine Builders
An issue in manufacturing that is singular to machine builders is the speed with which they can respond with service to the machines, in the case of a failure. In the past, this has usually meant…
Machine Monitoring: Your first step in Industrial IoT
The first step in adopting Industrial IoT is Machine MonitoringIndustrial IoT is the wave of the future for manufacturing. Why? Because the goal in any plant or on any factory floor is to reduce costs to improve…