Machine Health, Process Health, Production Health blog | Augury
Your Stack Is Full of Tools. Where’s the Workforce?
A recent Verdantix model predicts the industrial AI analytics software market will grow from $3.2 billion in 2025 to almost $9.3 billion by 2031. This rapid growth, about 20% per year, reflects a real-world need. Traditional software has hit a ceiling: it helps us spot problems, but not solve them. Now, we’re seeing tools that…
Agentic AI in Manufacturing: Applications and Benefits
Key highlights: What is agentic artificial intelligence (AI) in manufacturing? Agentic AI in manufacturing is a system featuring autonomous or semiautonomous software entities that perceive their environment, reason through complex multistep tasks, and take independent actions to achieve specific operational goals. While traditional AI outputs information, agentic systems work with your team on the shop…
Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM): What It Is and How to Implement It
Key highlights: What is reliability-centered maintenance? Reliability-centered maintenance is an approach that industrial leaders use to identify the most effective intervention for each asset based on its specific failure modes and operational impact. Think about two identical pumps in your facility. One provides coolant to your most critical production line, while the other handles a…
From Alert to Action: 5 Things to Know About the Augury + MaintainX Integration
Augury helps manufacturers detect developing issues early through Machine Health monitoring and prescriptive insights. MaintainX is an asset and work intelligence platform that helps frontline teams turn insights into action. By integrating the two, Augury alerts become actionable work within MaintainX so frontline teams can act with confidence: complete with context, asset data, and AI-powered…
The Growth Trap: How Nestlé Purina’s Hartwell Facility Restored Reliability During a Massive Expansion
In the world of manufacturing, rapid growth is a good problem to have, but it is still a problem. For the Nestlé Purina facility in Hartwell, Georgia, keeping up with the demand for wet pet food meant constant expansion. But as new production lines were added, the facility’s maintenance program began to stretch thin. Without…