How Optimizing Preventive Maintenance Drives Competitive Advantage

Emerson’s Vice President of Industrial Software, Monil Malhotra,  shares his thoughts on optimizing preventive maintenance and how it drives competitive advantage in an article in the April issue of Processing magazine. 

Process manufacturers are operating differently than they did even five short years ago. A global pandemic, supply chain crises and a stronger public focus on sustainability have increased the need for plants across an organization to all operate at peak performance. Every link in the chain is essential, so in most cases every plant across the enterprise needs to step up to meet new goals.

Accomplishing these goals requires changes in the way plants operate in terms of equipment, processes and personnel. But these changes often seem at odds with the needs of maintenance staff who, as part of their preventive maintenance strategies, require consistency so they can trust equipment to run as expected for a certain length of time. Read more in Processing magazine.