Reducing maintenance costs through predictive fault detection

摘要

CBM is a maintenance approach that has been utilized for over twenty years. With the vast amounts of data collected in industrial organizations today, the key issue becomes determining what data to analyze, when and how. CBM can be implemented with relative ease using some of the latest technology which can now be used online, tracking, recording and analyzing failure signatures. The continual evaluation of failure signatures versus the current state provides the earliest possible notifications to the users of impending failures. The result is simple: reduced downtime, eliminated cascade damage and a decrease in maintenance costs. A successfully implemented CBM strategy should provide a ROI in six to twelve months and increased plant availability and reliability over the long term.