Product novelty 15. August 2023

With data-driven predictive maintenance, machine failures and unnecessary maintenance measures are avoided.
The purpose of maintenance is to ensure the technical availability of production equipment and machines and to reduce unplanned, technically related shutdowns. In preventive maintenance, the time intervals for maintenance measures are set a bit shorter than the average operating time between two malfunctions. This results in maintenance measures that often are not yet necessary at the time. While maintenance is being performed, equipment and machines cannot be used. Because maintenance measures as well as production losses are associated with costs, it makes greater economic sense to carry out as many maintenance measures as necessary, but at the same time as few as possible. The purpose of predictive maintenance is to reduce the downtime of equipment and machines for technical reasons. Maintenance measures are to be carried out exactly when they are unavoidable – when a shutdown is imminent. The aim is to increase the time between two specific maintenance measures and reduce technically related downtime.