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The Future of Maintenance – Part 8 – Insights from a real Industry 4.0 application

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.

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The Future of Maintenance-Part 7-Future starts here and now

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.

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The Future of Maintenance – Part6.2, AR setup for Maintenance

We are demystifying the cross linked needs of AR setup in this series of “The Future of Maintenance”. In other words , How to be ready for applying AR when it knocks our doors in maintenance?

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The future of maintenance – Part 6.1 – The eyes of the AR

Let’s go through the elements that can make AR application in maintenance possible. So, when someone offers you an AR tool you know what you will be looking for. Optical Recognition will be our starting point. It is simply how the AR sees the world around it.

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The future of maintenance – Part 6 – Augmented reality in Maintenance

The future of maintenance is full of new technological tools as the Augmented Reality. This will support, improve and evolve how we do maintenance. That’s not a daydream or a hope, it is already applied. So it is a matter of time to be available for you.

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The Future of Maintenance – Part 5.4, Can the AI Agent make its own rules?

When the AI Agent senses its environment as the gameboard or the user preferences it can infer new equations representing this new status. The next action or recommendation will be based on the previous equations it built. Let’s see examples about it.

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The Future of Maintenance – Part 5-3, We perceive AI as….

The key to reach to this balance point quickly and make full use of AI in maintenance is to perceive AI correctly. Creating correct perceptions about AI needs understanding what is the AI? How it works? and its real capabilities and potential.

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The Future of Maintenance – Part 5-2, What AI really is?

We tried to bring the AI or Artificial Intelligence closer to our minds. If you can understand the intensions and thinking methodology of any human, you will be better in dealing with him/her. This applies also for AI. If you managed to understand the intentions of the AI -Artificial Intelligence and how its rational model works. You will accept it, use it for your own good and, even improve it to be a real ally or a perfect helping hand.

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The future of Maintenance – Part 5 – AI is already here

It is important to understand what is AI -Artificial Intelligence- in details because it is currently part of our work and life even if we don’t realize this.

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The future of Maintenance-part 4- Is it industry 4.0 or Industry 5.0?

Whether Industry 4.0 or Industry 5.0 is the current industry trend both of them relies on the Intelligence of the machines. An Intelligent machine can sense its environment, take a decision and apply an action or give a recommendation. How this can transform maintenance?

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