Predictive Maintenance (PdM) is a maintenance strategy which is based on determining the health condition of a piece of equipment in an accurate quantifiable manner while the equipment is still in Service.
Predictive Maintenance is achieved by employing Condition Based Maintenance (CbM) techniques which means measurements are taken at regular intervals and evaluating the data collected using specialized software in order to :
1. Asses the overall "health" status of a piece of equipment and predict the period of time until the equipment will no longer operate as required.
2. Identify any developing defects at early stages and focus maintenance efforts in rectifying the defect.