The oil & gas industry has continuously increased its requirements, together with the high complexity of technological systems and the higher competitiveness of markets, it has compelled end-users to implement adequate maintenance strategies for these systems to improve plant availability and productivity to meet those more demanding criteria, written by Amir Basyouni & Stephen Plaisance.

Process-intensive Industrial Operators are increasingly wading into the digital transformation revolution to streamline production in the face of globalization, a shifting workforce, and heightened cyber security threats. Delivering safe, reliable, and environmentally friendly operations while maintaining a competitive advantage over peers is virtually unachievable without intelligent adoption of technology and cultural acceptance of changes to long standing processes, written by Jackie Tappan.

While technology moves at a rapid pace with exciting advancements and new discoveries, it’s the beneficial application of said technology that is key. In the world of Condition Monitoring and protection, terms such as the Internet of Things, edge devices, smart sensors, cloud capability, digital, are the latest trends towards connecting machines in order to gather even more data for machine learning to provide insights, written by Chris McMillen.