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.
Field Notes · Topic
Predictive Maintenance
Articles tagged “Predictive Maintenance” on the Zoniax blog — field notes on industrial operations intelligence.
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.
Predictive Maintenance for Processing Plants
From sensor data to avoided downtime: how to choose where inference runs, how readings travel, and whether alarms come from rules or learned models.
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.