Modern Materials Handling: MRO, ML and AI are top of mind at Modex 2020
From Modern Materials Handling:
One of the challenges for the MRO industry to get to that Level 4 – Predictive Maintenance is going to be data. In order to produce reliable and actionable results, AI and ML need data and lots of it. Otherwise, the risk is that the maintenance system “will start flagging issues that aren’t really issues,” noted John Sorensen, senior vice president of lifecycle performance services at MHS. “You don’t want technicians and maintenance managers to think that the system cries wolf.”
Where then does a progressive maintenance team start.
Modern Materials Handling: CMMS takes aim at predictive maintenance
No one likes unpredictability. It’s unsettling. Usually disruptive. Costly, too. But the unpredictability that most plant and DC managers would never tolerate in their processes and workflows, they often accept in maintenance.
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