Primer | Predictive Maintenance Leveraging IIoT

There’s been a lot of discussion lately about the sizable investment needed to implement IIoT and predictive maintenance approaches for enterprises after successful pilot projects. Sometimes success doesn’t mean implemenation.

As Joe Barkai, former vp of research at IDC says in our upcoming podcast (coming next week):

“From the research and many conversations I’ve had, the return-on-investment (ROI) model perhaps more importantly, is one of the top three reasons for hesitation or for not taking on IIoT; not moving from proof of concept to implementation.”

Barkai and I discuss this topic and, specifically, the amount of time needed to green-light big projects for bigger companies. Currently, they’re short timeframes and it doesn’t jibe with large IIoT/predictive maintenance overhauls. Southern Company (documented here) moved past a pilot project of their own and on to a larger optimization/Pd’m plan.

To help facilitate quicker scaling of Pd’m & IIoT implementations, Dell joined Kepware’s strategic alliance program last June and now provides a turnkey solutions approach for manufacturers. Kepware, via the OPC protocol, provides plant floor communication to the enterprise level, which is done via Dell’s gateway equipment. These gateways “convert” plant floor control and diagnostic communication — analog or digital — and allow it to run seamlessly for business applications.

So if you’re starting the journey and have questions on how to move to a predictive maintenance approach, take a look at the primer from Dell below.

>> Click Here to Download the Primer