Predicting success with your predictive-maintenance programs

Since the Industrial Revolution, maintenance managers have struggled with equipment failures that lead to costly downtime. Perhaps you are one of them. And while the problems of generations past are still common today, Industry 4.0 techniques are providing fresh hope for cost-effective, scalable solutions to enable maintenance managers to predict problems and mitigate them before they lead to unplanned downtime. Perhaps you are one of those maintenance managers. The growing streams of condition-monitoring data from wireless sensors, handheld tools, supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, and more, combined with modern software and analytics, are setting the stage for a ground shift. Even today, predictive maintenance lets maintenance leaders monitor real-time asset condition data to prevent failures before they occur.