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Condition Monitoring & Predictive Maintenance
Vibration, temperature, efficiency trending; early fault detection; avoid catastrophic failure.
10 min read · Jacob Willis, Net Zero Lead · Last reviewed July 2026
The most efficient maintenance happens exactly when equipment needs it, no sooner and no later. Condition monitoring and predictive maintenance make this possible by watching equipment health and acting on the evidence, rather than on a fixed calendar that inevitably services some things too often and misses faults in others. This lesson covers the move from calendar to condition, what to monitor, how predictive maintenance works, its energy dimension, and how to target it.
In this lesson
- 01From calendar to condition
- 02What to monitor
- 03How predictive maintenance works
- 04Sources and further reading