Preventive vs. Predictive vs. Prescriptive Maintenance: The Differences Explained

Think of preventative, predictive, and prescriptive maintenance as a laddering-up progression of your maintenance program, not a competition. Preventive maintenance lays the foundation with set repair calendars, predictive monitoring uses real-time machine condition data to optimize repair windows, and prescriptive diagnostics uses AI to bring in fault diagnosis and recommended fixes. In reality, most manufacturers…