Asset Management, Video and More Video

This issue looks to increase the spotlight on how innovative asset management strategies can improve plant optimization, and possibly find cost-savings for an organization.

Grant GerkeDigital Managing Editor
Nov 1st, 2011
In this month’s Industry View column, Paula Hollywood, senior analyst, ARC Advisory Group, reveals that global process industries lose $20 billion worldwide, or five percent to annual production due to unscheduled downtime or poor quality.  That’s staggering and it begs the question of how close manufacturers are to developing asset management strategies? Read Paula’s column on p. 53 and find out if businesses are getting organized and stronger.  

On the digital front...

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Grant Gerke, ggerke@automationworld.com, is Digital Managing Editor of Automation World
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