Earlier this year MOVUS Founder and CEO Brad Parsons published an interesting post about the Six Platform Must Haves customers should consider when evaluating Industrial IoT solutions. The fourth point in Brad’s list related to API’s for Integration. For companies embracing Industry 4.0 or Maintenance 4.0, being able to quickly and easily integrate IIoT-generated insights […]
Smart Sensors Benefit Maintenance Teams in These 5 Ways
We’ve talked previously about how predictive maintenance is changing the game for many businesses. Smart sensors enabling the improvement of equipment efficiency and availability (you can read the full article here). This year we’ve seen a significant uptake from business looking to change their maintenance processes. They want to minimise reliance on physical inspection and […]
New Case Study – Matrix Polymers
In manufacturing, unplanned downtime is a profit and reputation killer, and also significantly impacts a manufacturers ability to hit OEE targets (as MOVUS discussed with OEE expert Clive Moore earlier this year). This new case study from Australian manufacturer Matrix Polymers highlights the value of continuous condition monitoring. Why MOVUS FitMachine for Continuous Condition Monitoring? […]
MOVUS and OSIsoft announce technology partnership
MOVUS, the Australian developer and provider of continuous condition monitoring solution FitMachine, and OSIsoft, a leader in data technology for critical operations, today announced a technology partnership. This will enable customers from around the globe to correlate the data from equipment and processes captured and curated by the PI System, with trends, real-time data and […]
The Business Case for Industrial IoT
For over five decades, industrial sensors and actuators have been instrumental in the evolution and automation of processes within heavy industries. Systems like SCADA, PLCs and RTUs have been in use since the 1960s. Distributed controls systems were introduced in the 1970s to provide distributed control of production plants. These systems generated massive amounts of […]
Equipment Trust and Predictability – The Business Value of FitMachine
This series of blog posts walks through short stories about our customers’ experiences and the business value they derive by using our solution on a daily basis. This customer tells us over and over again that his organisation trusts FitMachine monitoring and now has the confidence that running their equipment harder or for longer periods […]
Maintenance Transparency – The Business Value of FitMachine
This blog post series covers short stories about our customers and the business value they get by deploying and using our solution on a daily basis. This short story shares the experience of a global industrial manufacturer. Their teams combined the insights from FitMachine monitoring together with the recent maintenance activities to diagnose what happened […]
Workers Safety – The Business Value of FitMachine
In this blog post series, we talk about the stories on how our customers are using FitMachine and the business value they get out of our solution. This story refers to a fertiliser manufacturer with a zero-harm policy. By avoiding a catastrophic failure, the FitMachine alert – combined with the quick actions of our customer’s […]
Visibility Into Equipment Health – The Business Value of FitMachine
As MOVUS rolls out scaled FitMachine deployments, our team gets to hear many stories about how our customers are using FitMachine and the business value they get out of our solution. This short story talks through how our customer in the heavy manufacturing industry gets visibility into their equipment health beyond the equipments parts being […]
Faster MachineCloud Dash Paves the Way for Improved Insights
We’ve learnt a lot in the past few years from our existing dashboard and its use with our customers. As MOVUS continues to scale to larger customers with bigger FitMachine fleets, we thought it was the right time to roll out an update to the Customer Dashboard that will lay a strong foundation for future […]