Practical resources for maintenance and operations leaders: grade your alarm load and bearing risk, calculate downtime exposure, and turn industrial standards into plant decisions.
Scenarios reflect commonly reported predictive-maintenance outcomes (≈30-50% unplanned-downtime reduction). Adjust to your own pilot evidence.
Grade control-room alarm load A-D against the published benchmarks, with the top rationalisation moves.
Open the scorerTurn a vibration report into a spares decision: failure stage and speed against your spare lead time.
Open the estimatorBPFO, BPFI, BSF, and FTF without the mystique — the formulas, one fully worked 6205 example, what each tone implies for inspection, and where envelope analysis misleads.
Read the briefWhere machine data should live — framed by ISA-95 levels, IEC 62443 zones, and NIST OT guidance — with the three boundary decisions every plant has to make explicitly.
Read the briefWhat ISA-95's level model actually gives you, how it relates to the unified-namespace idea, and the three decisions that settle the argument for a real plant — without picking a tribe.
Read the briefWhat ISO 10816-3 / 20816-3 severity zones actually mean on a plant floor, the alarm-band decisions they should drive, and where the zone tables stop being useful.
Read the briefWhat the NIST AI Risk Management Framework actually asks of an industrial AI pilot, the three decisions it should change before you deploy a model on the plant floor, and where it stops being useful.
Read the briefWhich bearings, the H/V/A convention, load-zone placement, and mounting-method frequency limits.
Open the guideThe seven questions ISA-18.2 asks of every alarm — necessity, cause, consequence, response, priority.
Open the guideSeven questions for every path data takes in or out of the control network — before it goes live.
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