Equipment Failure Analysis in Manufacturing: How IIoT Data Turns Root Cause Investigation from Art to Science
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A hydraulic press in your stamping plant fails on a Tuesday afternoon. Your most experienced maintenance technician opens the electrical cabinet, runs some tests, replaces a component, and the machine is back up in four hours. Problem solved? Not really. Without understanding why it failed, you're just waiting for it to happen again — maybe on second shift when that technician isn't there. Equipment failure analysis is the discipline of turning breakdown events into prevention strategies. And IIoT data is transforming it from tribal knowledge into repeatable science.