Manufacturing Insights | TwinThread

“I know we need to move toward predictive operations, but I don’t even know where to begin.”

I have been obsessed with asset efficiency and service models ever since I led the industrial software business at GE starting in 2007. At that time we were leading the the world in using advanced service contracts and data from connected fleets of assets - like gas turbines and aircraft engines - ...

Plant efficiency has been an obsession of mine for 30 years. In 1991, during my first assignment as a process engineer, I implemented my very first predictive model to optimize uptime on a complex $400mm paper machine. That single model took many months of consulting and development time, well over ...

What would it mean to your organization if, instead of reacting to downtime as it happened, you received advanced warming of asset or equipment failure? Not only that - what if those advanced warnings also came with information that empowered your operations team to better understand the reasons ...

Thomas Edison once said: “There’s a way to do it better. Find it.” These words, first spoken over a century ago, still ring true today.

As an organization, TwinThread took some bold and innovative steps in 2020 to further enhance how our Predictive Operations Platform can be applied with greater and more lasting impact than ever before. The global challenges of last year emboldened our team to strengthen the functionality of our ...

2020 offered up a variety of challenges to our organization and to the greater industrial sector that required creative and innovative approaches to problem-solving and operating remotely. Fortunately for TwinThread, the mentality of overcoming obstacles is inherent in everything we do. Barriers to ...

Knowing what’s happened in the past, is happening in the present, and why is great. But, being able to accurately predict what will most likely occur in the future is game-changing. Knowing what will happen and being able to prepare or prevent, instead of just reacting, will change how you see ...

It‘s inevitable: inefficiency seeps into even the best-planned, most expertly implemented processes. Whether you’re creating products on a manufacturing floor, managing equipment in the field, or simply seeking to optimize power consumption so you can reduce costs and minimize your environmental ...

Power consumption, typically one of the ‘big three’ manufacturing expenses, along with labor and raw materials, has historically been resistant to any sustained cost reduction effort. But increasingly volatile energy markets, combined with intelligent devices becoming cheap and readily available, ...

For your engineers to feel they have strong visibility into enterprise-wide energy consumption, they must first have access to data reports at the individual machine level. Plant and line level reports are not enough because they don’t provide sufficient granularity to see where energy waste is ...

When looking at your operational performance history, you need to ask yourself: what trends do you see over time? To answer this effectively – and to mitigate any negative outcomes – reports and analysis can bring you part of the way, but data scientists and other operations experts can accelerate ...