The Industrial AI Blog
The media specialised in AI applied to industry: maintenance, quality, inspection and asset integrity. In-depth articles and free tools, no account needed.
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Quality and compliance
Detecting biofilms and bacteria: my UV 365 nm and AI hypothesis
UV-A fluorescence at 365 nm reveals organic residues, not bacteria. What it shows, its false positives, what AI can read in it.
Asset integrity
Types of industrial corrosion: how to recognise and treat them
Uniform, pitting, galvanic, crevice, SCC, CUI, MIC: recognise each corrosion mechanism by its morphology to choose the right treatment.
Maintenance strategy
FMEA: the full method, from scoring to a worked example
FMEA step by step: the 3 types, Severity, Occurrence and Detection scoring, the RPN calculation and a worked example, with its honest limits.
Asset integrity
Periodic requalification of pressure equipment: what the rules require
What the PED and national in-service regimes require for pressure equipment requalification, and the operating file that decides the outcome.
The field toolbox
- Corrosion ratemm/yr
- MTBF · MTTR · uptimereliability
- Thickness logtrend
- Inspection intervaldue date
- Report templateCMMS
- Unit convertermm · psi
- Lost hoursROI
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AI and maintenance
RAG in industry: answering from YOUR documents, not the web
RAG makes AI answer from your documents, not the web. Its principle, where it breaks (retrieval) and the governance that holds it together.
Quality and compliance
AI in the pharmaceutical industry: use cases, risks and regulation
Real AI use cases in the pharmaceutical industry: vision, batch records, deviations, sterile utilities, and the GMP, Annex 11 and 21 CFR Part 11 framework.
AI and maintenance
Generative AI in industry: the use cases that actually work
Which generative-AI use cases really deliver in industry in 2026, which are over-hyped, and how to pick the first one to run.
Asset integrity
Non-destructive testing (NDT): which method for which defect?
Penetrant, magnetic particle, eddy current, ultrasonic, radiography: which NDT method for which defect, material and access.
Asset integrity
The 5 Best Industrial Asset Integrity Software
An honest comparison of 5 industrial asset integrity software tools: what each really does, its strength, its limit, and which one to choose.
Software and data
The 10 Best Software for Industry 4.0
MES, IIoT, digital twin, CMMS, vision, ERP, historian, AI: ten Industry 4.0 software compared, each with its strength, limit and best use case.
AI and maintenance
How to choose a profitable AI project among several ideas
How to select and prioritise the most profitable AI project in a plant: the sorting criteria, a scoring grid, and the traps that turn a pilot into a money pit.
Software and data
CMMS, EAM, IDMS and AIMS: what are the differences?
CMMS, EAM, IDMS, AIMS: clear definitions, what each software category covers, what it does not do, and how they coexist in an industrial plant.
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