Maintaining continuous operations is priority-one for any factory. Even a brief power outage can cause major production disruptions. Regardless of location, every factory must have backup generators. However, because these systems are not infallible, factories need predictive analytics to keep operations running smoothly.

In this article industrial operations engineers will learn:

•    The many challenges of monitoring diesel UPS systems manually 
•    How PDM systems can also apply to other factory assets like HVAC and exhaust fans 
•    About one predictive diagnostic maintenance system can detect problems before a power supply fail