Preventive maintenance
Introduction aux méthodes de maintenance

As defined in the above-mentioned standard, preventive maintenance is "maintenance designed to reduce the probability of failure or degradation in the operation of an asset". From this general definition, we can distinguish three variants:

• systematic preventive maintenance ;

• conditional preventive maintenance ;

• predictive maintenance.

But before taking a closer look at predictive maintenance and the methods and tools used to implement it, let's take a closer look at the challenges of preventive maintenance in general. Indeed, all the surveys carried out to date show that, contrary to all expectations, preventive maintenance is struggling to gain a foothold in certain professional sectors. Although manufacturers are increasingly aware of the real cost of machine downtime due to breakdown (overall cost of downtime), the...