Category: P-F Interval

  • PM, PdM, Proactive Maintenance

    Here are my definitions of these terms: Preventive Maintenance: A general category covering maintenance tasks (called policies) that seek to anticipate and deal with failures that could likely occur in the future. Preventive Maintenance is a super-set of strategies that include Time Based Maintenance (TBM) and Predictive Maintenance (PdM). Time (Age) Based Maintenance (PM): A…

  • Inspections or CBM?

    A maintenance professional comments: According to the definition that you provide, you would actually group inspections as CBM activities.  This is semantics I think, but the term condition-based maintenance would make me believe that it relates to an activity that is prompted by analysis that indicates the condition is unsatisfactory for continued service.  That is…

  • Predictive analytics

    The advent of the Mesh Living RCM cloud service brings true predictive maintenance to the forefront of Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) technology. The mind map describes the elements of this new capability offered to maintenance departments.

  • Diagnostics versus prognostics

    Where is the divide between the process of troubleshooting and that of predictive condition based maintenance? Both sets of procedures require condition data and knowledge of failure behavior. How do these distinct processes work with one another? Some confusion in the purchase and application of maintenance technology tools can arise when the particular problem lacks sufficient…