As manufacturing facilities increasingly move to automation and advanced manufacturing practices, there is less slack in the system for failures and unplanned downtime. Factories must be ready to operate whenever production requires.

Energy improvement offers enormous potential for variable cost reduction and improved environmental performance. These types of improvements can be fast tracked and amplified via internet-based collaboration, but there is a risk that outsourced services can lead to a hollowing out of site expertise. 

Babies not yet able to read, to seniors, and all ages in between, are using a ubiquitous technology that perhaps 30 years ago, hadn’t even pierced one’s consciousness. That technology is, of course, the internet, and all of the myriad ways we rely on it: communication, social networking, commerce and education, to name a few.

Fluke Condition Monitoring provides a system of temperature, voltage, current and power sensors that can be moved from asset to asset or left in place for continuous monitoring. 

Computerized maintenance management software (CMMS) can integrate IoT sensors to measure temperature and vibration levels of equipment such as motors, gearboxes and generators. 

Synergy 1000 Cloud application includes features to ensure access to real-time data collection, charting, monitoring, analysis, communication and reporting. 

Web-based operations management and visualization software package delivers real-time process information intelligence.

Interest in using cloud computing — also known as Software as a Service (SaaS) — to provide remote access to industrial systems continues to rise.