INTRODUCTION As industries advance with the addition of new technologies and processes, main-tenance parallels this growth with its own. Predictive maintenance has risen as a tool to cut costs and increase productivity - its main goal is to sustain a rhythm and keep activities running every day. But, the ultimate goal is no longer to fix ma-chines, but to prevent them from break-ing down.Why has it become so critical? Well, maintenance professionals across the globe still mostly use reactive mainte-nance, which only allows them to act when faults and failures have already happened. This costs companies both time and money – their most valuable re-sources.

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