4. Conclusion
This paper presents a discussion of how different sectors
can benefit from the introduction of Condition-Based
Maintenance strategies. The discussion is based on an analysis
of expert views regarding the type of failures occurring in
different types of industries (Jantunen et al., 2014). One
observation made from the survey results is that the apparent
failure types seem to follow quite a different pattern in
different sectors. It is evident that the cost-efficiency of
introducing a CBM strategy can be accessed on the face of
evidence from occurring failure types across a range of
organizations.
Although the maintenance community has for long been
aware of the importance of studying such failure statistics,little data is available to enable a truly data-driven decision. In
such circumstances the decision can be out of necessity taken
on the basis of expert views. Still such views would ideally
need to be validated by actual observation in industrial
practice. The conclusion is that there is an increasing and
rather urgent need for organizations to establish accurate
recording of the failure events, so as to facilitate more
informed choices regarding the introduction of CBM
strategies. While this is so, the current evidence from the
expert perception of failures occurrences is that CBM has
significant potential to bring substantial savings in different
sectors, most typically in transport (aerospace, rail) and in
process and manufacturing industries.