{"id":2221,"date":"2020-12-21T18:11:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T12:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.isocietymanager.com\/?p=2221"},"modified":"2023-05-08T16:07:29","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T10:37:29","slug":"what-is-prescriptive-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factech.ai\/blog\/what-is-prescriptive-maintenance\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Prescriptive Maintenance?"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is Prescriptive Maintenance<\/span><\/h1>\n

Prescriptive maintenance is the asset maintenance strategy that uses machine learning to adjust operating conditions for desired outcomes, as well as intelligently schedule and plan asset maintenance. Prescriptive maintenance not only looks for failure signatures, but also provides information about how to delay or entirely eliminate equipment failure. These algorithms can comb historical data for examples of a wide variety of operating conditions, and also extract patterns and extrapolate data to provide hypothetical operating environments.<\/span><\/p>\n

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It has evolved from predictive. Predictive offers constant monitoring and sometimes a few limited recommendations, and not much else beyond that. Recommendations from predictive maintenance are super relevant to make improvements and avoid unscheduled downtime. But in most cases, they only cover the devices and can\u2019t analyze other variables.<\/span><\/p>\n

Prescriptive maintenance goes beyond the realm of preventive, descriptive and predictive maintenance. It not only leverages the approach and capabilities of statistical models & forecast techniques \u00a0but also provides users with the options regarding corrective measures that can be acted upon. With prescriptive maintenance, devices in collaboration with operators are proactive participants in their own maintenance.<\/span><\/p>\n

When a change in the equipment (the data) occurs, prescriptive maintenance will not only show what and when a failure is going to happen, but why it is happening. \u00a0Taking it one step further, prescriptive maintenance will take the analysis and determine different options and the potential outcomes to mitigate any risk to the operation.<\/span><\/p>\n

EXAMPLES OF PRESCRIPTIVE MAINTENANCE<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Prescriptive maintenance<\/a> can be applied to tons of places, but the concept is so new that finding applications in real environments can be challenging. Early adopters mostly use it on a small scale and usually outside the process automation world. So far, we\u2019re only seeing it in parts of processes instead of throughout entire runs. However, those segments can provide pieces of the performance picture by measuring certain points, then analyzing the data gathered.<\/span><\/p>\n

BARRIERS TO PRESCRIPTIVE MAINTENANCE<\/strong><\/h2>\n