The Future of Maintenance – Part 23 – Know & Apply
Seeking to know and apply how to move forward and propel your career and workplace toward their brightest future will give your life and work their true meaning.

Seeking to know and apply how to move forward and propel your career and workplace toward their brightest future will give your life and work their true meaning.

The core idea is that as your knowledge or knowing grows, the tools that will unfold between your hands will corollate to your relative position on the track. Exploring further forward on your track is a great motivator to continue and grow. Then you will be able to figure out how you can use digital tools creatively to create creative tools.

It is worth noting that mastery can propel creativity forward or block it. This is the fact even though creativity and mastery seem to be entangled because the key ingredient for both of them is the knowing. let’s first understand the border lines between mastery and creativity.

Our first step to mastery is the knowing. We need to know our track and the target we would reach by following this track. But, we need to keep in mind that there are many tracks within the same skill. Each track has its own joyfulness, challenges, tools and most importantly a target. At any time we can switch to another track once we have the enough knowing about it.

The first step to digital confidence as well as any other sort of confidence is that you want to develop the awareness of the challenges that you are facing. And, to develop the consciousness of the alternatives to face those challenges.

Succeeding in a digital world is only the matter of developing a digital confidence that you will succeed in every new interaction with the digital world even if the context changes. This needs practice. And, some understanding of what happens behind the user interface UI.

It is important to bring AI or Artificial Intelligence closer to our minds. If only we can understand the AI intentions and thinking methodology

Let’s examine the responses of different mindsets in various situations based on their digital aptitude. In reality we are a mix of the four groups we displayed; starting from digital savvies to paper-based pragmatics. Each set of aptitudes will tell you how far you are digitally ready.

We are used to say learning skills. So, why digital skills need understanding not only learning? Is there a difference between learning and understanding? Are these differences between learning and understanding related only to digital skills? let’s delve deeper to gain more knowledge about the subject.

Recently Predictive maintenance strategy started to look differently from its long term twin; the condition based maintenance. This diversion started with the implementation of the IIoT and was entrenched more with the tools provided by the Industry 4.0.

Diversity of the technical skills and the skill levels among the team is naturally driven through a matrix of factors affecting the skills building and levelling up.

What is mindset? And, How to build it in a way that helps us reach our targets? These questions can be the most important ones to shape our personal future and the future of maintenance in general.

The key for preferring an AI agent over a human one will be the feasibility of using one. Introducing AI tools to augment or replace human work force needs a workforce of its one. So still in the AI realm we shall need physical hard work, work consistency and awareness of the AI flaws.

The industry shapes how we do maintenance. The industry is heading towards an automated digital era. This means that maintenance needs to be ready with a new mindset and a digital skillset

The AI and its effect on the future of maintenance is selected as one of the MainTrain2023 conference presentations. MainTrain…

ChatGPT responses can empower the new generation if used as a strong starting point. But, If the ChatGPT response will be used to escape a situation only, then it is worse than giving a hungry man a fish to eat because it will generate a superficial generation that can say or appear to know a lot but can do nothing.

In this chat we came closer to understanding ChatGPT as one of the disrupting technologies that may change how we work and study. We explained what is ChatGPT and how it looks when compared to search engines. Also, we used the choice paradox to explain some psychological backgrounds

To level up our consciousness through expanding our awareness we need simple explanations for the new terms in our new world. So, what is a chatbot? And, How we can use it for maintenance easily? Also, Which type of chatbot would serve maintenance better.

This article was inspired by the panel discussion at METEC 2023 about Industry 4.0 application. The panelists were from Gerdau Industry 4.0 Team and Primetals Technologies. We also showed the results of Gerdau Digital transformation as seen by their strategic partner, GE Digital.

All what we have is whatever available for us to do or ask about in this here and now moment. It is not important how big is what we are doing here and now but surely it is on the track to what we want.