Operational Excellence13 min

Planning Spare Parts Around Condition Signals and Lead Times

A working framework for deciding when a condition alert should change a purchase order: signal confidence, asset criticality, supplier lead time, and work-order readiness.

Monitory team · October 12, 2026
Maintenance Strategy14 min

From Pilot Alerts to Planned Work: Why PdM Demos Stall Before Deployment

Most predictive maintenance pilots prove detection and fail at the planner handoff. Use a production-readiness checklist and go/no-go rubric to turn alerts into scheduled, verified work.

Monitory team · September 30, 2026
Maintenance Strategy13 min

A Buyer's Rubric for Evaluating Condition Monitoring Options

Score condition monitoring options on workflow fit, data requirements, operating ownership, implementation dependencies, and financial assumptions using your own plant inputs.

Monitory team · September 17, 2026
Technology14 min

Why Predictive Maintenance Alerts Point to the Wrong Asset

Mismatched sensor tags, CMMS asset IDs, and line names quietly wreck predictive maintenance trust. Here are the shop-floor data checks planners need first.

Monitory team · August 24, 2026
Agentic AI12 min

Agentic AI for Root Cause Analysis: From 5-Why Whiteboards to Autonomous Investigation

Agentic AI can search CMMS history, sensor trends, procurement records, and operator notes to propose ranked causal hypotheses for engineers to test. Here is how the architecture works and how to pilot it safely.

Monitory team · July 6, 2026
Operational Excellence12 min

OEE Optimization: Why Your Dashboard Isn't Driving Action

Many plants track OEE closely and still see little improvement. The gap is between seeing a loss and acting on it. Here is how to shorten that gap with better triage, cleaner data, and AI that drafts the work.

Monitory team · April 27, 2026
Technology13 min

CMMS Integration: Why Your Maintenance Data Is Trapped

Condition monitoring alerts, historian trends, CMMS work orders, and ERP parts data rarely talk to each other. Here is an integration architecture that lets predictive maintenance scale past the pilot.

Monitory team · April 13, 2026