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Why Drilling Equipment Condition-based Maintenance Needs Operational Context?

July 08, 2025
Written by Andy Wang, PhD.

While sensor-based condition-based maintenance (CBM) can work very well for equipment with constant load, such as those used in manufacturing plants, it falls short when it comes to drilling equipment and smart predictive maintenance.

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Andy Wang, Ph.D. Andy Wang, Ph.D.

What is AI-driven root cause analysis?

Modern production systems can reap the benefits from AI-driven root cause analysis. AI is very good at figuring out patterns in large, complex data sets.

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Andy Wang, Ph.D. Andy Wang, Ph.D.

Why are large-scale industrial data solutions so hard to build?

Industrial data is very disparate. They come from different sources such as equipment, sensors, controllers, and historians. They come from different generations of hardware where each generation can have different data interfaces and data protocols. Each data protocol requires a different data connector, and it is very time-consuming to implement and support these data connectors.

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