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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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.
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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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.
Maintenance strategy
Preventive maintenance plan: building it from real risk
How to build a preventive maintenance plan from equipment criticality and real condition, instead of inherited intervals that no one questions any more.
Asset integrity
When to replace industrial equipment: estimating how long it has left
What a remaining useful life estimate is really worth, the conditions that make it defensible, and the cases where you should refuse to calculate it.
Asset integrity
Tracking equipment degradation between inspections: method and conditions
How to turn isolated thickness readings into a usable degradation rate, under which conditions, and how to read a trend without being misled.
Asset integrity
Turning a PDF Inspection Report Into Data: What Works, What Resists
What you can genuinely extract from a PDF inspection report, what resists, and how to judge a tool's accuracy before you buy it.
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