Data-goudmijn!

Duizenden kalibratierapporten zijn een data-goudmijn gebleken! Deze week bij Nobian Rotterdam de resultaten verwerkt van mijn analyse van meer dan duizend kalibratierapporten van meetinstrumenten. Het enige wat hiervoor nodig was, waren;– een grote stapel kalibratierapporten (pdf)– een algoritme voor tekstherkenning…

Framework agreement with Nobian signed!

After two years of being detached to Nobian at the Botlek site as a Maintenance Engineer Instrumentation a framework agreement has been signed for consultancy on maintenance and reliability. Can’t wait to apply the Prespector app for the Failure Mode…

Prespector available for free!

After the launch of Prespector on the VIKTOR platform you can now use Prespector for free to try it. You can find out for yourself how it works and download the results of your failure rates. What Prespector does? It…

Survival analysis up & running!

In healthcare the survival analysis to estimate life expectancy is used widely. This type of regression is perfectly suitable to estimate the remaining useful life (RUL) of machines in industry. Especially when used with Proportional Hazards this algorithm can be…

DIY – Machine Learning & Aging Assets

Gulf Raffinaderij Rozenburg - Foto: Hans Peters (Nationaal Archief)

Afgelopen jaren heb ik mij als Reliability Engineer verdiept in Machine Learning en veel toepassingen gezien voor de (petrochemische) industrie zonder enige investering. Het verbaasde me hoe eenvoudig je er mee aan slag kan en wat er nog te winnen…

Prespector ready for mining

Prespector is my new product which clients can use after I’ve helped them implementing Machine Learning algorithms to improve predictive maintenance. In the coming weeks I will post some examples of the Prespector dashboards. Keep an eye on the site!

DSM Food Specialties – Data analysis

Results on the data analysis of the yeast centrifuges at DSM Food Specialties are starting to get form! Using machine learning the behaviour of these systems can be predicted and abnormalities detected by the Plant Support Engineers and Maintenance Engineers.…

Construction halfway!

At the construction site in Glenside the composting tunnels and biofilters are starting to get their final form. The ducting is almost at its position and the tunnel fans are ready to be placed. Startup planned for the end of…

Nice start at GICOM

After three weeks at GICOM I am glad to see there are a lot of nice project are starting. Lots to do!  

GICOM Composting Systems

I’m proud to announce that my first assigment as freelance maintenance engineer will be as project manager of an expansion project for a composting system with GICOM Composting systems. The excisting facility in Northern Ireland will be expanded with 4…