In part one of our Predictive Maintenance series, we talked about the philosophies and history of maintenance (Click here for Part I). The second part of the series focuses on wind turbines and includes examples of how Kavaken’s solution identified a possible major component breakdown in advance to avoid production loss and equipment costs totaling …
Author: Ömer Eker
Kavaken’s Predictive Maintenance Part I
Maintenance philosophies can be classified into two categories. These are reactive and proactive maintenance. As the name indicates, reactive maintenance is unplanned; it simply takes corrective actions as equipment exhibits fault symptoms that humans can sense or break down. Proactive maintenance can also be broken down into two categories: 1. Preventive maintenance (PM) 2. Predictive maintenance (PdM) …