2024 Schedule
No Value from AI-Predictive Maintenance? Maintenance Strategy is the Culprit Presenter: Arun Gowtham
Senior Advisor, Asset Management, GHD Inc.
Description:
Organizations are rapidly implementing new digital tools for remote monitoring of assets and using them to drive maintenance actions. However, not all projects succeed in creating value for the teams. Where is the shortcoming? Is the technology broken, or are we all falling for the marketing ploy? The answer is complicated. It has to do with each company’s maintenance strategy for adopting digital tools. The choice of tools such as IIoT, CBM, and AI has to be blended with the business strategy. This presentation will cover the ideas and principles to successfully execute AI-PdM in your organization. It will open your mind to see that there are other supporting processes that need to be built into place to extract value from PdM. Gathered from multiple industries, the ideas are packaged into an abstract form that any member can apply in their manufacturing plant. About the Presenter:
Arun Gowtham is a Certified Reliability Engineer with a decade of industry experience applying Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) and Design for Reliability practices to improve system reliability. His breadth of exposure to diverse teams spanning three countries and four industries has given him unique insights and opportunities to tackle field failures and build sustaining reliability programs. His current interest is in employing data-driven analytics to underpin decision-making for reliability management. Gowtham started his reliability journey with a thesis on Predictive Modelling for RCM as part of his Master’s degree from Drexel University in Pennsylvania.. He also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Anna University in India. Gowtham is an active volunteer, the president of PEMAC’s GTA Chapter, and a registered engineer in Ontario. |