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How to Build a Predictive Maintenance Program from Scratch: A Manufacturing Engineer's Playbook

· 10 min read
MachineCDN Team
Industrial IoT Experts

You know the pattern. A critical machine goes down at 2 AM. The maintenance team scrambles. Someone drives to a parts supplier that opens at 7. Production is offline for 14 hours. The plant manager asks why nobody saw it coming. You mutter something about the vibration sounding "a little off" last week. Nobody writes it down. Three months later, it happens again.

Building a predictive maintenance program breaks this cycle — permanently. Here's how to do it from scratch, without a PhD in data science, without a seven-figure budget, and without spending 18 months on a pilot that never scales.