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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Skills and transformation
The industrial maintenance manager: the skills that actually matter today
What is changing in the industrial maintenance manager's role, the skills that genuinely carry weight, and how to build them without a budget.
Quality and compliance
Visual inspection depends on the operator, and what AI vision changes
Visual inspection varies with the operator and fatigue. What AI vision standardises, and the confidence threshold that returns ambiguous cases to humans.
AI and maintenance
The real risks of AI in industry, and why local deployment reduces them
The real risks of AI in industry: data leaks, invisible errors, vendor lock-in, security. Most come down to one thing, keeping control of your data.
AI and maintenance
Why responsible industrial AI is local, bespoke and off the cloud
Responsible AI in industry is not a label but an architecture: protecting sensitive data calls for bespoke, on-premise tools that stay off the cloud.
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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Software and data
Asset Management Software for the Food Industry: How to Choose, and Where AI Really Makes a Difference
How to choose asset management software for the food industry without a misstep, the criteria that matter, and what predictive analysis really changes.
Skills and transformation
Training your team to use AI in industry: what actually works on the shop floor
Why AI training fails in technical teams, and the sequence that works when people are on shift, in the field, and nowhere near a desk.
AI and maintenance
Predictive AI in maintenance: extending your equipment's life
What predictive AI really changes in maintenance: anticipate degradation to act at the right moment and extend the useful life of your equipment.
AI and maintenance
Local AI off the cloud: deploying an LLM or LMM on site
Why deploy AI on-premise rather than in the cloud: what an LLM or LMM does on an industrial site, the tasks it automates and the real constraints.
Skills and transformation
Learning AI for your industrial role, on your own and without a company budget
How an industry professional can learn AI for their own role, without a company budget: where to start, what to avoid, and how to prove it.
Industrial inspection
Preparing for a technical or regulatory audit: arrive with a history, not a pile of PDFs
Approach a technical or regulatory audit without losing two days: what the auditor really looks for, and how to keep a history that answers on its own.
Skills and transformation
Change management for an industrial AI project: what really kills adoption
Why a technically successful AI tool still goes unused, and what actually changes that: the unspoken fear, the local referent, and proof drawn from real work.
Industrial inspection
How to calculate a corrosion rate: formula, unit and pitfalls
The corrosion rate formula from dated thickness readings, the unit to use, and the difference between short-term and long-term rates explained.
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