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CMMS Systems Requirements & Functions Your Organization Needs

Technician considers the CMMS system requirements.

When developing effective facility operations strategies, facility management tactics and practices are an essential part of the planning process. While facility managers have traditionally relied on preventive maintenance, as a proactive asset management methodology, there is a significant shift to predictive maintenance (PdM) due to real-time data becoming more prevalent, and machine learning providing better insights into potential areas of risk.

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CMMS Benefits That Will Improve Maintenance Operations & Efficiency

Technician considers CMMS benefits that will improve maintenance operations.

When developing effective facility operations strategies, facility management tactics and practices are an essential part of the planning process. While facility managers have traditionally relied on preventive maintenance, as a proactive asset management methodology, there is a significant shift to predictive maintenance (PdM) due to real-time data becoming more prevalent, and machine learning providing better insights into potential areas of risk.

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Machine downtime truly hurts the food and beverage sector—here’s how to reduce it by 40 percent

Engineer in a hard hat working on a laptop in front of industrial machinery.

Downtime significantly impacts the bottom line in manufacturing—costing companies as much as $260,000 per hour, according to Aberdeen Research. Unplanned downtime is often a result of knowledge gaps involved with machine/shift changeover or machine operations directly. Training and experience significantly improve these areas of operations inefficiencies. Unplanned machine downtime is another culprit. Critical machinery that breaks…

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Machine as a Service + IIOT = Flexibility + Real Opportunity for American Manufacturing: An equation that can’t be ignored

American manufacturers cannot do anything about the pandemic, but they do have one economic arrow in their quiver to use to counteract the downward economic direction – that is, adopting the Machine as a Service approach toward deploying additional machinery.  American manufacturers who cannot come up with the capital to purchase new machinery can still…

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The Transformative Journey Toward Machine as a Service (MaaS)

A conversation with Edward Garibian, CEO of Llumin in Springfield, MA   Interviewer: Ed, before I ask you a few questions about the transformative journey that many manufacturers are going through as they embrace MaaS, can you tell us what MaaS is and give us a brief history of MaaS? Ed Garibian:  Yes, I’ve watched…

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Manufacturing in a World of Disrupted Supply Chains

Supply chains are not impervious to disruption, be they caused by natural disasters (pandemics, earthquakes, hurricanes, etc.), changes in political leadership, military actions, tariffs and viruses. That’s because manufacturers often rely on parts produced in countries around the world to manufacture their finished products. In the resulting world of turmoil, manufacturers can take decisive steps…

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