Maintenance 4.0 Begins with Asset Performance Management (APM).
With APM (Asset Performance Management), technology has never helped maintenance so much in an easy and simple way, facilitating knowledge and access to information anytime, anywhere.
Smart manufacturing enables the use of Industry 4.0 technologies to transform your business and enable operational improvements, maximize the return on capital investments, and increase profitability. To this end, with Maintenance 4.0, we convert your raw data into practical knowledge to prevent equipment failures and make intelligent decisions that improve operations.
Industry 4.0 is about transforming the way companies produce goods or services to achieve the highest level of production efficiency while increasing sustainability and connectivity with the rest of the company’s departments. To this end, the APM (Asset Performance Management) strategy for Maintenance 4.0 works with various technologies that facilitate the efficiency objectives: SW technological solutions (in the cloud or on-premises), the Industrial Internet of Things through IIoT platform, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning and Big Data.
Therefore, an APM strategy for Maintenance 4.0 uses the principles of Industry 4.0 and the IIoT to redefine and optimize Asset Performance Management.
By adopting technologies such as guided and predictive analytics avLanzada, prescriptive guidance, condition-based maintenance (CBM), augmented reality, the cloud, and various mobility solutions, organizations can access, leverage, and optimize their assets anytime, anywhere.
The starting point of this transformation is to have a clear understanding of your current operating models and processes, assessing the possibilities for operational improvement that produce a clear financial economic performance. With the APM strategy of Maintenance 4.0, we can approach Industry 4.0 and intelligent maintenance under five key factors: company objectives, organizational dynamics, regulatory requirements, supply chain, and maintenance agents/key performance indicators KPIs.
I How can we get started? Roadmap for improvement
The roadmap for improvement includes clear objectives and the expected return on investment (ROI) with a step-by-step action plan for short- and long-term strategies. The assessment provides information on four key areas related to the management of scarce resources, critical assets, tight budgets, and the achievement of compliance objectives.
I What Advantages Does APM Management Bring to Industry 4.0?
Predict Equipment Failures and Reduce Downtime.
Discover asset failures days, weeks, or months before they occur, and schedule maintenance operations at the most economically viable time.
Increase Asset Utilization and Extend Their Lifespan.
When a potential problem is identified, instead of shutting down the equipment immediately, it is possible to assess the situation to look for more practical solutions and optimize asset utilization.
Improve Safety and Regulatory Compliance.
Ensure knowledge capture so that maintenance decisions and processes are repeatable even when companies encounter transitioning workforces.
Reduce Operating and Maintenance Costs.
Early warnings with advanced analytics allow maintenance to be planned proactively, making it possible to request and send spare parts without haste and keep equipment running.
Identify Assets that are not Performing as Expected.
Monitor the entire fleet to discover which asset or group of assets are underperforming to prioritize replacements or optimization opportunities.
We Offer Data where You Need it, when You Need it.
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) represents a new way to incorporate data from previously inaccessible streams to provide a more complete view of the company. In general, the Internet of Things refers to devices that were not historically connected to the Internet, but now are, for example, smart TVs and security cameras. More specifically, the IIoT refers to industrial devices that now have the ability to send data to HMI, SCADA, MES systems or to the cloud. These “smart” devices can include connected sensors, valves, or switches, or field devices that connect to the network.
The barriers to adopting IIoT technology have fallen dramatically in the last decade. Historical challenges to implementing IIoT solutions included expensive components to add network connectivity, difficulty aggregating data from disparate streams, and lack of a centralized database or dashboard. Now, most of these barriers have disappeared thanks to improvements in technology and the fact that software vendors are focusing on creating solutions that are independent of any platform to read and write data.
The fundamental value of an IIoT architecture is the context it provides to the data. By aggregating data streams into a single source, it is possible to analyze and understand the data and make practical decisions.
By applying an APM strategy based on Maintenance 4.0 IIoT, we can provide an immediate return on investment (ROI) by aggregating previously inaccessible data from your network and analyzing it in the cloud to increase efficiency, monitor asset performance, and perform predictive maintenance with the help of AI and machine learning.
With APM (Asset Performance Management), technology has never helped maintenance so much in an easy and simple way, facilitating knowledge and access to information anytime, anywhere.
Do you want to know how APM can bring value to you? Do you want us to help you define your Maintenance 4.0 project? Contact Wonderware APM.
