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You can't predict anything with predictive maintenance.
Ron Moore
Introduction
Let's begin this chapter with the above admonition: you can't predict anything with predictive maintenance, or PdM as it is often called. Why then is it called predictive maintenance? The source of the name is likely lost in the fog of history, and the name is at least 20 years old. What you can do with PdM is understand the condition of your equipment, and based on certain standards or measures, you can detect an anomaly or the onset of failure, and anticipate that the equipment will eventually fail. Based on the severity of the condition and the consequence of failure, you can determine an appropriate priority and course of action to minimize the risk and consequence of the pending failure. You cannot predict when a machine will fail with any particular accuracy, but you can identify when the probability of failure has increased. A much better phrase for PdM is Condition Monitoring (CM), a phrase that will be substituted as appropriate in this chapter.
Cost Reduction Benefit of CM
The most common form of industrial CM, vibration analysis, has existed since the early 1970s, and there have been any number of studies that have provided compelling evidence of its business benefit. One of the more recent sets of data available that provides a compelling case for the use of CM technologies is provided below in Figures 13-1 and 13-2, which shows correlation coefficients of maintenance costs and two...
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Overview This chapter discusses the techniques that are most commonly used by maintenance departments to ensure equipment reliability: preventive (PM) and predictive (PDM) maintenance programs. The...
Jo lle Courrech, Ronald L. Eshleman INTRODUCTION Condition monitoring of machinery is the measurement of various parameters related to the mechanical condition of the machinery (such as...
Overview Predictive maintenance is the monitoring of equipment operating conditions to detect any signs of wear that is leading to a failure of a component. The goal of the predictive maintenance...
