Predictive Maintenance Blog

Start Small and Build Support
Picture this: you are a maintenance manager who is in the planning stages for a new predictive maintenance (PdM) program. Other initiatives like this have failed in the past, but you are determined to change the maintenance culture in your facility. To enable this, you assemble a cross-functional...

Oil Analysis for Predictive Maintenance
Predictive maintenance (PdM) is a broad field of many overlapping technologies, all of which have one common goal: find faults in a machine’s condition before the machine fails. On their own, predictive technologies each have their own strengths. For example, the following are our most common...

Key Traits of Successful PdM Programs
In our last post, I touched on some negative factors which can lead to program failure. Today, let’s flip the script and take a look at three positive traits of successful predictive maintenance (PdM) programs: top-down support, communication and documentation, and consistency. Top-down support In...