Industrial IoT
8 articles
- How to Choose Predictive vs Preventive Maintenance for Each Asset
Predictive maintenance is not a plant-wide upgrade over preventive. It is a choice you make one asset at a time, based on how the asset fails, how critical it is and how long spare parts take to arrive. This guide uses DOE, NIST and RCM research to show where calendar PMs work, where condition monitoring pays and where running to failure is the sensible choice.
Sep 24, 2026
- What Does an Hour of Unplanned Downtime Cost Your Plant?
Vendor surveys put an hour of downtime at $125,000 or even $2.3 million. Your line has its own number. Here is how to build it from lost contribution margin and incremental recovery costs, without double counting.
Sep 21, 2026
- Why Your OEE Number Hides Most of Your Lost Capacity
Three common OEE shortcuts can turn a 55% line into an 82% number: a shrunken denominator, a padded cycle time and an unweighted plant average. Here is the recalculation on one sheet, with a worked example.
Sep 14, 2026
- Which Industrial AI Demos at IMTS Are Ready for a Plant Floor?
The new Industrial AI Arena puts 32 exhibitors plus Sandia National Laboratories on one floor at McCormick Place. Five questions — data, ownership, edge, references, and a benchmarked ROI claim — will tell you which demos survive contact with a real plant, and which ones are a retrofit project wearing a software price tag.
Sep 6, 2026
- How to Keep Shipping When Your Plant Systems Go Dark
Boston Scientific's order intake kept running while its ability to ship did not. That gap — EDI up, fulfillment down — is the outage most discrete manufacturers have never rehearsed, and the fix is mostly paper, printers and pre-approved procedure.
Sep 4, 2026
- GE Vernova's Gas Turbine Backlog Stretches Past 2030 — Data Centers Are Out-Bidding Utilities for Slots
GE Vernova now has 100 GW of heavy-duty gas turbines under contract against roughly 10 GW per year of production capacity. Non-refundable slot reservation deposits are letting hyperscalers compete directly with regulated utilities for 2029-2030 frames — and they are winning on price.
Jun 6, 2026
- Hitachi Stakes Industrial AI on Mission-Critical Infrastructure — a Lane Stellantis and Laminar Don't Fit
Hitachi's CES 2026 reveals and HMAX Energy launch deliberately plant its industrial-AI flag on substations, rail, and heavy process — not the discrete-plant and fluid-line AI being sold by Stellantis/Accenture/NVIDIA and Edison-winning Laminar. The framing has real engineering consequences.
May 25, 2026
- Stellantis Just Put Accenture and NVIDIA on the Plant Floor Together — the Real Tell Is Who Now Owns the Manufacturing-Execution Stack
Stellantis and Accenture's plan to scale NVIDIA-powered digital twins isn't the story. The story is that a volume automaker is publicly naming a systems integrator and a GPU vendor as the architects of its plant-floor orchestration layer — and the brief doesn't say who owns it.
May 19, 2026