Safety & Maintenance
“Time-to-Action” Forecast Analytics » Digital Twin solution enables industrial companies to predict, diagnose, forecast, and prevent downtime of critical equipment » Predictive analytics provide early and accurate detection of pending issues for hundreds of common industrial assets » SmartSignal customers have realized Return on Investment in three months
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Ellie Holman Product & Technology Communications GE Digital ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ellie Holman is Product & Technology Communications for GE Digital and previously was Product Launch Manager for the company. She began working with GE as Public Relations Manager in 2005.
E Digital has updated its SmartSignal predictive maintenance software solution that helps industrial companies proactively predict, diagnose, forecast, and prevent equipment failures. SmartSignal is available as a standalone software product or as an integrated component of the GE Digital Asset Performance Management (APM) software solution. New features include unique time-to-action analytics to forecast when a malfunction may occur, improved visualization and analysis tools, and continued expansion of the Digital Twin Analytics and Content Catalog covering more than 300 industrial equipment classes across manufacturers. GE Digital SmartSignal has been a leading predictive maintenance software solution across industries for nearly two decades, with continuous investment in analytics breadth and innovation. While other solutions may provide only a general indication of a problem, SmartSignal diagnoses the cause and severity of the issue and determines the required timeframe for remediation. SmartSignal customers can also benefit from GE Digital’s Industrial Managed Services for remote monitoring, alerting, and remediation guidance.
New Time-to-Action Forecasting The new time-to-action analytics forecast when an equipment anomaly will actually reach an alarm limit and require immediate remediation. This information allows reliability and maintenance engineers to accurately
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prioritize and schedule corrective actions to keep operations and equipment running. Beyond helping assure zero unplanned downtime, SmartSignal now helps reduce reactive work and optimize Operations & Maintenance (O&M) scheduling. “The time-to-action analytic adds a new dimension to GE Digital’s APM capabilities,” said Joe Perino, LNS Research Analyst. “With diagnostic, predictive, prescriptive, and now forecasting analytics, equipment maintenance activities can be defined, prioritized, and scheduled by actual operational risk windows. Adding a time factor to problem diagnosis provides an important benefit toward optimizing maintenance activities while avoiding downtime.”
Enhanced Visualization, Analysis, and APM Integration SmartSignal customers with on-premises software installations will now have enhanced thin client visualization and analysis tools on par with cloud-based solutions. Expanded features include new charting capabilities, analysis overlays, and an updated case management interface. On-premises users can also now seamlessly integrate SmartSignal events and data into the rest of the APM suite, allowing full leverage of APM features like policy management, asset health management, action management, and end-to-end O&M workflows. An added feature of the newest version of SmartSignal is its ability to be accessed by tablets and smart phones. This empowers the modern industrial worker to manage critical
