Prescriptive maintenance  

Similar to the patterns that predictive maintenance analyzes, prescriptive maintenance uses advanced analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to generate predictions about maintenance, and also act on them. What does this mean? Basically, prescriptive maintenance makes recommendations to improve system operations, and also follows up on its own to produce a work order and oversee the entire process.

Sound advanced? That’s because it probably is for most businesses. As long as you’re manually checking your essential equipment, and staying on top of manufacturer recommendations and inspection procedures, you’re already well on your way to effective preventive maintenance—no prescriptive maintenance required!

Now that you understand more about the different types of preventive maintenance, we’ll dive into the benefits and potential pitfalls of standard preventive maintenance practices.