The basic aim of this paper was to reveal the
introducing of preventive maintenance specially
condition monitoring system at supporting maintenance
management of agricultural machinery. So, the primary
focus of this article was reviewing condition monitoring
system and application of it to agricultural machinery.
Then, recent research and developments in machinery
diagnostics and prognostics used in implementing CBM
have been summarized. Various techniques, models and
algorithms were reviewed. Of the three main steps of a
CBM program, namely, data acquisition, signal
processing, and maintenance decision making, the latter
two were the focus.