Remaining Useful Life Without Run-to-Failure Data
You don't need a graveyard of failed bearings to forecast a repair, and the number on the dashboard was never the point.
Field Notes · Topic
Predictive Maintenance
Articles tagged “Predictive Maintenance” on the Zoniax blog — field notes on industrial operations intelligence.
The Model That Goes Quiet: MLOps on the Plant Floor
Deployment is day one for an industrial model, not the finish line: how drift, retraining, and ownership decide whether it survives its second year.
How to Measure ROI on Industrial AI
A plant-floor method for baselining, attributing, and pricing industrial AI value before the dashboards outrun the returns.
Thermal Imaging for Predictive Maintenance
How infrared inspection turns invisible heat into lead time before a connection fails.
Industrial AI in Food & Beverage: Yield, Uptime, Quality
Where machine vision, soft sensors, and predictive maintenance actually have to run on a regulated production line.
Anomaly Detection on Process Data: Before the Alarm Trips
Fixed alarm limits catch the gross excursion and miss the early drift. Here's how learned anomaly detection scores raw sensor streams, and why the threshold, not the model, is the hard part.
MTBF and MTTR: Four Myths That Hide Downtime
Reliability metrics are only as honest as the failure definition and the timestamps behind them. Four claims worth dismantling.