Plant Engineering‘s top 5 most read articles from October 15-21 covered Manufacturing 4.0, predictive maintenance, digital twin collaboration, compressed air and VFDs, and the plant of the future. Links to each article below.

1. Manufacturing 4.0: Just add people

Adding human intellect to technology produces greater results and ingenuity is central to manufacturing, increasing efficiency, inspiring a new generation of skilled workers, and creating bottom line profitability.

2. Predictive maintenance: Monitor, measure and act: Your questions answered

Webcast presenter David Auton answered questions about topics such as predictive maintenance strategies, P-F curves, energy consumption as a prediction of failure, and more.

3. Digital twin collaboration advances brownfield process operations management

Siemens and Bentley’s collaboration of PlantSight links the design/build and operate/maintain aspects of oil and gas assets and other brownfield applications.

4. Compressed air and VFDs: Get the most from your system: Your questions answered

Webcast presenter Jarrett Affolter answered questions about topics such as cost benefits of a compressed air system, recommended volume for an air tank, and when to use fixed speed or variable speed.

5. The plant of the future

In a virtual world, the possibilities are real.

This list was developed using CFE Media’s web analytics for stories viewed on www.plantengineering.com, October 15-21, for articles published within the last two months.

Chris Vavra, production editor, CFE Media, cvavra@cfemedia.com.

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