Ctrl-Alt-Duomo
This famous Milan cathedral took nearly six centuries to complete and dominates the city center
Duomo di Milano
This manufacturing KPI combines availability, performance and quality into one number executives love putting on slides
OEE
This maintenance strategy intentionally waits for equipment to fail before repairing it
Run-to-failure maintenance
This term describes a timestamped operational occurance such as a shutdown, startup or alarm
Event
This room contains more screens than a gaming tournament but significantly worse chairs
Control room
Risotto alla Milanese
This chart type uses upper and lower control limits to identify abnormal process variation
Control chart
This industrial reliability methodology developed at Motorola aims to reduce defects to near perfection
Six Sigma
This lightweight publish/subscribe protocol became the unofficial language of industrial IoT
MQTT
This device opens or closes to control the flow of liquid or gas in a pipe
Valve
This football club shares San Siro stadium with AC Milan and uses blue and black colors
Inter Milan / Internazionale
This process capability metric compares process spread against specifications limits using standard deviation
Cpk
This Japanese manufacturing philosophy focuses on continuous improvements through small incrimental changes
Kaizen
This API architecture style commonly uses HTTP methods like GET, POST, PUT and DELETE
REST
This term describes the desired value a control loop tries to maintain
Setpoint
This Italian fashion house headquartered in Milan is recognized by its double-G logo
Gucci
This statistical principle says roughly 80% of outcomes often comes from 20% of causes
Pareto principle
This chart type is commonly used in reliability engineering to visualize probability of failure over time
Weibull distribution
This historian technique reduces storage requirements by recording values only when changes exceed configured thresholds
Compression
This term describes a control loop operating without feedback from the process variable
Open-loop control
This Italian inventor and engineer pioneered wireless radio communication technology later used aboard ships like the Titanic
Guglielmo Marconi
This management theory argues that improving a system bottleneck improves the throughput of the entire process
Theory of Constraints
This engineering analysis method maps possible system failures using branding AND/OR logic gates
Fault tree analysis
This process estimates missing values between recorded data points using surrounding measurements
Interpolation
This industrial safety practice prevents equipment from being energized maintenance work
Lockout/tagout (LOTO)