Condition Monitoring in the Age of Industry 4.0

In this edition of Power & Motion Insights, senior content director Bob Vavra discusses condition monitoring in the age of Industry 4.0 with Frank Mignano, condition monitoring manager for SCHAEFFLER Americas. Among the topics discussed:

• An overview of condition monitoring technology, and why condition monitoring is indispensable in today’s manufacturing facilities
• How to determine asset criticality and, as a result, which preventive or predictive-based technologies should be applied to optimize asset reliability vs. manpower—or if run-to-failure maintenance is the best option
• A discussion of how sensor and battery technology have finally been optimized and packaged into rugged-yet-intuitive packages available on the market today
• A look at how data can be processed by proprietary algorithms into actionable Information (not just data) for the end user—allowing maintenance to be planned in a timely manner and executed at the lowest possible cost.

An expanded version of this interview can be found here.