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Sunday, June 17, 2012

Predictive or Preventive ?

There was a time when Preventive Maintenance (PM) was the answer to increasing reliability of systems and equipment. However, PM is usually intrusive and sometimes even harmful to equipment because it may actually introduce a failure mechanism.
Predictive Maintenance (PdM) on the other hand is typically non-intrusive, is easier to schedule because shutdown is not required and actually should be the basis for most of your existing PM work.
Which is better for you personally, surgery to see if you are healthy or some x-rays, blood work or even an MRI to determine what is really going on?
Why is equipment any different? The technology is out there, lets start using it

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