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 Predictive and preventive maintenance tools help to reduce unplanned downtimes of critical equipment.

 Technologies must be properly applied after careful planning to ascertain where and what to automate. 

Production is king, so maintenance personnel are lucky to get an hour per month on the equipment for fine-tuning, says JBT FoodTech’s Hanssen. “Yet you cannot run this way profitability, so food and beverage companies have to build in the time for preventive and predictive maintenance. Maintenance and production work more closely together,” continues Hanssen.

The guide covers five steps in the journey to data-driven wisdom.

A combined organization could more comprehensively address field communications and intelligent device management.

By choosing metrics to measure performance from a customer’s perspective, manufacturers can make analytics pay off.

Cloud technology can help companies keep track of inventory, productivity or the availability of alternative suppliers even when disaster strikes.

Adoption of the standard should improve device integration and asset management capabilities.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has spearheaded the campaign.