Thinking of implementing predictive asset maintenance? Expect bumps on the reliability journey
(World News Science)

Increasingly, organisations are looking at methods such as Predictive Maintenance (PdM) and Reliability-Centred Maintenance (RCM) to increase cost effectiveness, asset reliability and uptime. This is because traditional maintenance methods such as break-fix, and other reactive approaches are not sustainable for an asset-intensive organisation. Although maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) activities such as PdM and RCM are viewed by most organisations as a cost, MRO spending should be considered an investment for asset reliability. For example, a properly implemented MRO system could save an airline company $4 million to $18 million by minimising delays to flights due to unscheduled...