2 posts tagged with "prescriptive-maintenance"

Every manufacturing plant claims to be "doing predictive maintenance." In reality, most are somewhere between reactive and preventive, with a few vibration sensors they call "predictive" because a vendor told them to.

This isn't a criticism — it's a diagnostic. Understanding where you actually are on the maintenance maturity model is the first step to getting where you need to be. And more importantly, understanding which level makes sense for your plant, because not every operation needs to reach the peak.

Predictive maintenance tells you that something is going to fail. Prescriptive maintenance tells you what to do about it. That distinction sounds subtle, but in practice it's the difference between a maintenance team that gets alerts they don't know how to act on, and one that receives specific, actionable guidance that prevents failures with minimal disruption.