Today, Ron and Doug discuss PdM Program.

Predictive Maintenance, or PdM, has been around for decades, harking back to the 60’s and 70’s, and only became practical for routine use by technicians in the late 80’s with the advent of more advanced microchips. Unfortunately, most programs are not well implemented, or even programs.

All too often a beautiful demonstration will be performed, showing all the things you can do with (vibration, oil, infrared, ultrasound, etc.), a technician will be assigned, trained and achieve some success, UNTIL, the tech leaves, or the related problems have been “solved”, or some other reason, and the instrument ends up on a shelf, for occasional use, maybe. We’ll be discussing the elements of a good program.

We hope you enjoy this episode!