Paul Casto, long-standing practitioner of reliability and maintenance (R&M) improvement methodologies and Intelligent Asset Practice Leader at GrayMatter Systems, is sharing how he is defining APM and how it continues to evolve. 

Automated mechanics & steering, which can be termed as “rig automation”, is now increasingly being extended to address downhole conditions, advancing drilling optimization across the complete process through understanding the subsurface and its interactions with the downhole drilling system penetrating through the rock, the drill-string carrying power from the rig, and the drilling fluid system.

125 million electric vehicles globally by 2030 could mean 11 million tons of spent electric vehicle batteries (lithium-ion), needing to be recycled between now and 2030.

At the Hannover Messe this year, one clear change was the increased attention to software.  In the Amazon stand, there was this large, informative wall graphic for the AWS Manufacturing Reference Architecture.

Pipeline operators have been increasing the adoption of pipeline scheduling solutions as technology improvements have been improving performance and functionality, with the greatest traction being experienced by larger companies that are operating more complex pipelines with a mixture of liquids, such as crude, natural gas liquids and refined products.