From the plant floor
Technical articles on vibration signature analysis, bearing defect detection, and industrial protocols — written for maintenance engineers and plant managers who work with real equipment, not industry analysts who write about it.
Raw accelerometer data from a CNC spindle tells a detailed story — if you know the frequency signatures. Here's what BPFO, BPFI, and BSF frequencies mean in practice.
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OEE tells you how much availability you lost. Predictive maintenance tells you which machine is about to take it. Neither replaces the other.
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Modbus is everywhere in discrete manufacturing. OPC-UA is where new installations are going. Understanding both is non-negotiable if you're building a data pipeline from plant floor assets.
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Surface fatigue, abrasive wear, adhesive wear, fretting corrosion — each leaves a distinct vibration signature hours or days before catastrophic failure.
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We ran a 60-day pilot with a mid-size automotive stamping supplier. Here's what the downtime numbers looked like before and after — with no rounding up.
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