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The Role of AI in Predictive Maintenance
Predictive maintenance depends on history, sensors, and realistic expectations.
Draft article — pending editorial review.
Predicting failures requires relevant sensor data and enough history of past failures to learn from. Many organizations are earlier in that journey than vendors suggest.
A pragmatic path begins with condition monitoring and trend analysis, then moves to prediction as data matures.
Maintenance teams should remain the decision-makers; the system's role is to help them prioritize.