Bearings are lubricated to reduce friction in their rolling elements. SDT ultrasonic system measures the level of friction produced by a bearing and stores it in a database for trending, alarming, and scheduling.

The Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence FCAI and NVIDIA’s joint NVIDIA AI Technology Center (NVAITC) will accelerate AI research, education, and adoption in Finland. Thanks to the new collaboration, researchers will be better equipped to develop computationally demanding artificial intelligence applications for research and industry use.

I recently visited a plant in South America for an assessment. They had done some really good things in the plant over the past 2-3 years, but they had not been able to achieve stable reliability performance of their production lines. They were hovering around the high 70s [%] for their Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE).  

ODVA  announced that it has entered into separate agreements to further integrate FDT and FDI technologies into EtherNet/IP™. Additional device description work on the next generation xDS™ for CIP™ devices also continues to move forward. 

ICONICS offers free use of its CFSWorX™ remote assistance solution for frontline workers to help companies address the travel and social distancing issues related to COVID-19.

Thirty-five years after the Russian cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya was the first woman to take a spacewalk, a new historical event took place above our heads on 18 October 2019. Two Nasa astronauts took the first all-female spacewalk. It was not just for fun, Christina Koch and Jessica Meir were responsible for replacing defective equipment from the International Space Station (ISS), and in that way also formed the first female maintenance team in the space.

Euromaintenance 2016 will take place in Athens at the end of May. It is the ideal moment to reflect on maintenance in a European context. Euromaintenance is known as the summit for all involved in maintenance across Europe, it’s the place to be. The conference, with the support of the EFNMS, is the only commercially independent conference covering the topics we deal with in the maintenance world.