Condition Monitoring Improves Predictive Maintenance

摘要

Plants go to great lengths to understand production processes. It makes sense to apply the same rigor to understanding equipment critical to those processes. Equipment failure can be expen-sive and potentially catastrophic. Unplanned production downtime, missed contract deadlines, cosdy machinery replacements, as well as safety problems, environmental concerns and regulatory violations are all potential consequences of a maintenance program that fails to predict and monitor equipment problems.