Predictive Maintenance

July 10, 2020

Play Offense with Predictive Maintenance, Not Defense with Preventive Maintenance

The traditional “let’s-do-maintenance-for-the-sake-of-maintenance” approach coupled with a quarterly maintenance contract mentality continues to undermine cost management for HVAC service providers. Both facility managers and HVAC service companies know that not every unit requires the same level of maintenance. Different influences affect different units. However, instead of playing defense with arbitrary, way-too-frequent maintenance schedules, company leaders can move to offense and use HVAC data-driven predictive maintenance.  What’s the Difference Between Preventive and Predictive Maintenance?  Preventive maintenance relies on a pre-set list of “needs”. Predictive maintenance uses data […]