Webinar: Data-Driven Maintenance
Data-driven maintenance, also known as predictive maintenance, offers several advantages over traditional time-based and reactive maintenance approaches.
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Commonly Asked Questions About Control Valve App
Common questions about the Control Valve App: a vendor-agnostic tool supporting many valve types and actuators, with real-time predictive insights.
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Predictive Maintenance: From Theory to Practice
Jules Oudmans of UReason explains when using production data makes sense, how to get started with data streams, and what predictive maintenance yields.
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Large Language Models – The Future of Generative AI in APM
Generative AI applied to your own procedures, asset manuals and maintenance manuals saves the time spent searching for the right information.
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Critical Valves – Failure is not an Option
An operationally critical control valve holds precise control over flowrate, pressure, temperature or fluid level – and failure is not an option.
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Controlling the Control Valve – Consequences of Bad Controller Performance
Bad controller performance on control valves can have significant costs and consequences in various industrial processes and applications.
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The Business Case for Continuous Valve Diagnostics – Organisational Perspective: Scarcity of Skills & Expertise
Skilled valve specialists are scarce. How continuous diagnostics let a small team cover a large valve fleet across one or several sites.
The Business Case for Continuous Valve Diagnostics – Financial Perspective: Optimizing OPEX and Deferring CAPEX
The financial view on continuous valve diagnostics: where the OPEX savings come from, and how monitoring defers capital replacement spend.
FMEA or FMECA for your Assets? – Bringing it All Together: Continuous Failure Monitoring on Control Valves
A control valve failure causes downtime, product loss and safety risk. Regular maintenance, inspection and monitoring are essential to prevent it.
FMEA or FMECA for your Assets? – Mapping Control Valve Failure Modes to an FMEA
The Risk Priority Number – Occurrence x Severity x Detection – gives you a quantitative measure of which failure modes to focus on first.
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FMEA or FMECA for your Assets? – Failure Modes of Solenoid Valves
Solenoid valves control the flow of liquids and gases, and like any device they develop characteristic failure modes over time.
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FMEA or FMECA for your Assets? – Failure Modes of Electric Actuators
Electric actuators position valves, dampers and other mechanical components – and can experience several distinct failure modes.
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FMEA or FMECA for your Assets? – Failure Modes of Pneumatic Actuators
Pneumatic actuators use compressed air to move valves and dampers, and like any component they experience several characteristic failure modes.
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Business Cases: How To Make The Case for Improved Reliability of Control Valves
Why monitoring control valves improves reliability and safety, and how the Control Valve App estimates remaining useful life to plan maintenance.
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FMEA or FMECA for your Assets? – Failure Modes of Control Valves
Control valves experience several failure mechanisms that degrade performance and affect the process. The common failure modes, explained.
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FMEA or FMECA for your Assets? – The Process of Establishing an FMEA/FMECA
Setting up an FMEA is a systematic process for identifying and prioritising potential failure modes and their effects. The general steps.
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FMEA or FMECA for your Assets? – Introduction to FMEA & FMECA
FMEA and FMECA both assess and improve the reliability, safety and performance of products and processes – but they differ in key ways.
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Prevent Bad Actors with Advanced Condition Monitoring
Prevent bad actors in the plant with condition monitoring and remaining useful life analysis, using UReason’s Control Valve App.
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Do you want your plant to run better? Consider Control Valve Diagnostics
Reduce downtime, improve valve health and lift overall plant performance – practical ways to make your plant run better.
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Control Valves in District Heat Transfer Stations Need Help
How UReason’s Control Valve App changed maintenance for a district heating utility, enabling predictive and prescriptive strategies.
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Continuous Analysis Improves Valve Performance Management
Continuous valve analysis predicts failures and improves performance, and helps calculate the remaining useful life of your assets.
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Service-as-a-Service: Improve Valve Performance with Reliability Engineering
Control valves could soon be offered as a service, with throughput and uptime the measure – which calls for standalone valve health monitoring.
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Talk to Your Control Valves?
Let control valves talk, and be understood. How the Control Valve App prevents unexpected shutdowns and enables predictive maintenance.
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UReason Is Featured on Valve World Magazine
Using operating data, an audo-diagnosis algotithm fo predicting the Remaining Useful Lifetime of control valves and actuators is developed.
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Unlock the Power of Reliability-as-a-service for Control Valves
Reliability-as-a-service is an innovative approach blending AI and SaaS. It can empower smarter asset maintenance and replacement decisions.
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The Changing World of Valve Service Companies
Specialised valve service companies now offer high-quality maintenance programmes with advanced diagnostics, independent of the machine builders.
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Keep Food Production Rolling
Food plants run on valves, and one bad actor can cost a batch. How to find and fix the valves most likely to shut your line down.
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Take Up a Collection
Industry 4.0 is resource-hungry. Start with a collection of small wins – maintenance, digital twins, cyber security – rather than one big programme.
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Remaining Useful Life?
Discover the challenges of maintaining industrial valves and their remaining useful life and how new technologies can help optimise maintenance processes.
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Instandhaltung planen oder Roulette spielen?
Im Casino lassen sich Wahrscheinlichkeiten berechnen – bei Maschinenausfällen nicht. Wie Anlagendaten die Instandhaltung planbar machen.
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It is Turnaround Time!
Get to know a quick, technician- and operator-friendly way to figure out which valves and actuators are going to fail soon and prepare beforehand.
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UReason will be present the Masters Condition Monitoring conference on 16 and 17 March 2023 in Duisburg, Germany
UReason presents at the Masters Condition Monitoring conference, 16-17 March 2023 in Duisburg, on valve diagnostics and the Control Valve App.
UReason Supports Damen In First Steps Towards Predictive Maintenance
Damen is piloting its first predictive maintenance efforts with APM Studio, gaining accurate insight into how its assets are performing.
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The Mystery of the Failing Valve
No extra hardware or sensors needed – use the data you already have to detect valve failures and act on the recommendations.
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The Industry 4.0 Disconnect
Start with Practical Industry 4.0 by identifying the bad actors that cause troubles in your factory and using a specialized app to solve this.
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UReason supports Aquafin with data driven maintenance
APM Studio lets Aquafin analyse the root causes of event and alarm floods in real time, saving man hours and lifting process efficiency.
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How Do You Implement Prescriptive Maintenance?
Discover the benefits of prescriptive maintenance for cost-effective and efficient production. Minimize downtime and maximize productivity.
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How Creating a Digital Twin Helps Plants Run Better
This article explains the concept of Digital Twin, what a Digital consists of and how you can implement it for solving operational problems.
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Who Owns Your Data? Data Storage And Predictive Maintenance
Why data ownership matters for predictive maintenance, and how it shapes the way you can use asset data for performance management.
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How Low Can You Go? Reducing Downtime with Prescriptive Maintenance
Run-to-failure and preventive maintenance are both costly in downtime and lost production. Asset management tools reveal causes and consequences.
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Industrie 4.0 mal ohne Bullshit Bingo (versprochen)
Wie man die Vorteile von Industrie 4.0 nutzt, ohne im Dschungel der Begrifflichkeiten und unrealistischen Versprechungen den Überblick zu verlieren.
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Predictive Maintenance: Drinking Water Company Vitens Shares Learnings
How do you go from many stand-alone pilots to one organisation-wide data-driven maintenance strategy? The challenge Dutch water company Vitens faced.
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When Was The Last Time You Talked To Your Assets?
Your assets are talking to you all the time, in many different ways. Most asset owners are not set up to listen to them.
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The Complexity of Assets—and What to Do About It
Asset owners manage equipment that is incompatible, out of date and hard to maintain at current staffing. A modern APM system can help.
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Webinar: Industrie 4.0: Skalierst du schon oder programmierst du noch?
Wir erstellen live im Webinar eine Condition Monitoring Applikation und skalieren diese auf mehrere hundert Assets.
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Digitization and Asset Management in a Brownfield Plant
The article discusses the Problems of Aging Plants, what to do with multiple generations of systems and assets and how to get to Industry 4.0
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The Perfect Storm
An ageing workforce meets assets that cannot run without automation – and the people who built and operated them are retiring out.
How Do You Reduce Time Spent on Maintenance?
Ways to cut the time spent on maintenance – including the often-overlooked option of automating tasks your maintenance teams carry out by hand.
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UReason bundles APM Studio with Balluff’s Condition Monitoring Toolkit (CMTK)
UReason has bundled APM Studio with Balluff’s Condition Monitoring Toolkit, giving industry an easy-to-install condition-monitoring analytics solution.
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How Smart Machines Reduce Maintenance Costs, Energy Usage and Outages?
How the FOCUS-1 smart valve with APM Studio embedded provides diagnostic, prognostic and autonomous control functions to avoid unexpected failures.
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