A predictive maintenance solution built on Microsoft technology
Traditional maintenance occurs when something breaks and you need to fix it, or when it’s time to change a part, you change it. This approach can lead to downtime and lost production, safety risks, expenses related to planning, overtime, rush orders of spare parts, and inventory carrying costs, plus loss of customer satisfaction due to delays. Move to a data-driven predictive maintenance strategy using Rand Group’s solution built in the Azure cloud to predict asset issues before they even occur.
Deploy your predictive maintenance solution in the Azure cloud
Predictive maintenance uses a combination of sensors, artificial intelligence, and data science to optimize equipment maintenance. It monitors data collected from assets to identify patterns that lead to potential problems or failures, and with this data you can address issues before they happen and optimize equipment lifetime and minimize downtime.
Microsoft Azure offers a platform for developing and deploying machine learning models, and is the tool Rand Group’s team of software engineers uses to create predictive maintenance solutions. Rand Group is a certified Microsoft gold partner and your long-term technology partner. We will build a machine learning model based on your asset’s data that will identify predicted failure cases and help you formulate a plan to act on the insights. The cloud-based solution, built in Azure, will continuously analyze asset performance to identify issues before failures occur to improve performance, promote asset longevity, and reduce downtime and contracted maintenance costs.
Improve asset uptime and lifetime value
Use advanced analytics to identify performance anomalies or critical equipment issues faster than through the traditional break-fix approach to extend the lifetime of your assets and plan maintenance better.
Make strong use of your data
Aggregate data across assets from multiple facilities and operations to gain a universal, 360-degree “truth” about equipment performance and overall operational efficiency.
Reduce the cost of maintenance activities
Lower maintenance costs by giving technicians the data and tools they need to help equipment perform more efficiently and only schedule maintenance when it is needed.
Benefits of predictive maintenance
Predictive maintenance can be useful for businesses of all types, from oilfield machinery manufacturers and construction equipment rental to drilling companies and field service organizations. It offers real-time insights and tracks an asset’s full lifecycle from install, to maintenance, upgrades, and repairs. Additionally, it enables faster incident response so you can provide better service to clients or boost your operations.
Questions you can train your predictive maintenance solution to answer to ultimately reduce downtime and increase profitability:
- What is the probability that a failure will occur within the next 4 hours?
- What is the remaining useful life of the asset?
- Is this asset behaving in an unusual way?
- Which asset requires servicing most urgently?
Case Study
Seamless preventative maintenance with Dynamics 365 Field Service
Discover how Conquest Completion Services, LLC, revolutionized their maintenance operations by implementing Dynamics 365 Field Service with Rand Group. Prior to implementation, Conquest manually tracked maintenance using whiteboards, binders, and Excel spreadsheets. Now, maintenance is tracked digitally and managers can easily view upcoming maintenance as well as receive automatic notifications on predictive maintenance. This ensures all equipment is optimally maintained and also saves countless hours and improves the client experience.
Case Study
Seamless preventative maintenance with Dynamics 365 Field Service
Discover how Conquest Completion Services, LLC, revolutionized their maintenance operations by implementing Dynamics 365 Field Service with Rand Group. Prior to implementation, Conquest manually tracked maintenance using whiteboards, binders, and Excel spreadsheets. Now, maintenance is tracked digitally and managers can easily view upcoming maintenance as well as receive automatic notifications on predictive maintenance. This ensures all equipment is optimally maintained and also saves countless hours and improves the client experience.
Discover other business solutions offered by Rand Group
Rand Group offers numerous Microsoft-powered solutions across business areas and industries that we tailor to each client to transform your operations. Our team of software engineers will ensure your solution integrates with the rest of your technology stack, including your ERP system, and can accommodate unique processes and facilitate data flows. Explore other solutions below to compliment predictive maintenance.
Equipment Rental
Explore Rand Group’s unified, cloud-based solution for equipment rental that tracks equipment-related costs, reduces scheduling and processing times, optimizes utilization, and improves customer service.
Asset Tracking
Manage your assets from acquisition through retirement with a solution that integrates directly with your ERP system for maintenance and repair management, contract and order creation, depreciation calculation, and more.
Dynamics 365 Field Service
Rand Group offers Dynamics 365 Field Service, a connected field service solution that uses intelligent IoT, machine learning, and mixed reality capabilities to enable proactive field service operations, effective resource scheduling, and more.
Dynamics 365 Guides
Dynamics 365 Guides is a mixed-reality application for Microsoft HoloLens that empowers operators to learn during the flow of work using holographic instructions to get jobs done faster, minimize hours, and improve skills.
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