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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AI and maintenance
Making the case for an AI maintenance project to your board
How to cost an AI maintenance project so it survives the boardroom: what you measure, what you own as an assumption, and what you must never promise.
AI and maintenance
Can AI Replace the Inspector? The Line Between Preparing and Deciding
What AI can genuinely do with inspection and maintenance data, what it must never decide on its own, and why the sign-off stays human.
AI and maintenance
Delivering a first AI project in maintenance: a 90-day roadmap
How to run a first AI project in industrial maintenance without spreading yourself thin: the scope to pick, the first 90 days, and the traps that sink it.
Industrial inspection
Equipment inspection intervals: what regulation fixes, and what it leaves to you
What the rules really impose as inspection intervals, how an interval is calculated, and the risks no wall thickness measurement will ever see.
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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Industrial inspection
Ultrasonic thickness measurement: where to place CMLs and how to hold them
Where to place thickness monitoring points based on the damage mechanism, how many to set, and how to guarantee you re-measure the exact same spot.
Software and data
OCR or AI for reading your technical documents: three things people confuse before they buy
OCR, extraction, AI: three notions people confuse before buying. What each one really does to a technical report, and which one costs you.
Software and data
How to choose a CMMS: the method, the traps, and the spreadsheet nobody dares abandon
What a CMMS does and does not do, how to choose one without regret, when a spreadsheet still does the job, and where AI genuinely changes things.
Industrial inspection
Risk-based inspection (RBI) explained to the people who have to apply it
What risk-based inspection actually is, how probability and consequence of failure are built, and what you need in hand before you start.
Maintenance strategy
Reducing unplanned downtime: what your inspection reports already say
What inspection reports already contain about the failures ahead, how to surface it, and why the signal existed long before the plant went down.
Maintenance strategy
Industrial equipment criticality: building a matrix that earns its keep
How to rate severity and probability on a real plant, and why the probability axis is what makes most criticality matrices fail within two years.
Maintenance strategy
Maintenance planning: sorting the work when everything looks urgent
How to rank maintenance work when everything looks like a priority: objective criteria, a sorting method, and what you have to accept not doing.
Maintenance strategy
Preventive, predictive and condition-based maintenance: differences and examples
What these three maintenance policies actually cover, a concrete example of each, the data they demand and how to choose the right one.
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