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Frequently Asked Questions
(FAQs)
on
IoT enabled Predictive Maintenance Solutions
This is an honest and a humble attempt by our IoT Business and
Technology Leadership teams, to answer all your frequently asked
questions.
However, for more specific queries, please get in touch with our
team for more detailed conversations and demos!
Aartik Fernandez
BUSINESSMANAGER
aartik.fernandez@embitel.com
Vidya Sagar
Head - IoT & IVI
vidyasagar.j@embitel.com
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FAQs | IoT solutions for Predictive Maintenance
Q1. Can you share some details about your customer engagement
models for Predictive Maintenance solution development?
Ans: Our primary modes of engagement with our customers include
the following:
1. Complete Solution Package: We will take care of the Design,
Development, Maintenance, and post-deployment upgrades of
the Predictive Maintenance solution.
2. Develop and Transfer Package: We will design and develop the
IoT enabled Predictive Maintenance solution and then transfer it
(including the IP rights) to your in-house team.
Once deployed, your in-house IT team can manage the maintenance
and operations of the entire system
Post-deployment, we would also help your team for any system
upgrade related support.
Further, the customers can purchase our subscription based solution
upgrades, released periodically, and under any of the above specified
engagement models.
FAQs | IoT solutions for Predictive Maintenance
Q2. What are the different ways in which my business organization
can use the information aggregated by your IoT based Predictive
Maintenance Solution?
Ans: An information-intensive system like Predictive Maintenance can
be a value-addition for your industrial facility by enabling reliable
remote asset maintenance.
You can leverage Predictive analytics information to:
1. Proactively plan your asset maintenance schedule, which enables
enhanced asset availability & productivity.
2. Have a deeper understanding of the failure conditions of your
industrial assets. The Predictive analytics information can be used
to identify the root cause of the failure, as well as list down
additional evaluation metrics required for efficient monitoring.
3. Review & improve the existing design of your industrial
equipment to address faulty behavior or a design mistake of the
equipment at an early stage. This helps in saving unnecessary
operational cost and overheads.
4. To preempt any major hazard by identifying and reporting any
inconsistency in the equipment behavior. This minimizes the
equipment downtime and need for expensive replacements.
FAQs | IoT solutions for Predictive Maintenance
Q 3. My industrial production setup is based on legacy model. Can I
integrate it with your Predictive maintenance solutions so that I can
monitor them better?
Ans: Yes, you can. If your industrial assets have well-defined software
interfaces that aggregate data from the equipment externally, then
our Predictive Maintenance solutions can easily coexist with your
legacy industrial production systems.
Q4. What are the different alert mechanisms included within you
IoT solutions to caution the floor team of a potential failure or
hazard?
Ans: Our Predictive Maintenance Solutions comes with variable
failure notification/alert mechanisms to caution you floor team about
any possible equipment failure or an impending hazard. The alert
notification can be send to the in-house maintenance team as:
• Email alerts , or
• Text based alert messages through any of the standard messaging
applications such as SMS or WhatsApp
FAQs | IoT solutions for Predictive Maintenance
Q5. I am confused between choosing a – on-Premise or on-cloud –
model for storing by production, line data. Which one should I
choose?
Ans: It is advisable to have a basic checklist ready before choosing
between an On-premise & On-cloud model to store and process the
critical data aggregated from your industrial asset data.
The checklist must include the following factors to help you make an
optimal decision:
• The allocated budget for the project.
• Defining how much and what all type of data needs to be stored
(real –time data, historical data etc.).
• Number of times each device or equipment is used for daily
operations.
• Frequency of assessing and evaluating the equipment.
• Annual operating costs
Q6.What skill sets are required for developing a Predictive
maintenance solution?
Ans: A team involved in developing efficient IoT Predictive
maintenance solution should comprise of:
• Hardware Engineers
• Network design Engineers
• Embedded Firmware developers
• Cloud Computing Experts
• IoT Architects and developers
• Big Data Experts
• IoT communication protocol Experts
FAQs | IoT solutions for Predictive Maintenance
Q7. Can you please tell me about some successful customer
collaboration for Predictive maintenance solutions?
Ans: Over the past few years, we have helped numerous business
organizations in efficiently monitoring and managing their capital
intensive Industrial Assets.
Here is the snapshot of one such partnership:
• We partnered with a leading supplier of electric & automation
systems for Industrial Plants for efficient monitoring &management of
UPS Battery monitoring System.
• Our IoT team designed advanced IoT platform to enable predictive
maintenance for their UPS battery
• Our IoT automation solution facilitated a seamless maintenance
operations to be executed, by identifying & isolating the discharged
batteries at an early stage.
Our Predictive maintenance solution helped the customer in better
management of the UPS Battery monitoring System and lead to
following positive outcomes:
• Reduced the overall cost of ownership
• Minimized System downtime according to the desired SLA
• Managed the load balancing issues caused by charging and
discharging cycles of the UPS battery.
(Please contact us to know more details and success stories on
Predictive maintenance solutions)
FAQs | IoT solutions for Predictive Maintenance