Predictive Maintenance

Make condition-based maintenance, reliability-centered maintenance and predictive asset maintenance realities

In order to sustain operations, equipment needs to be available and in working order. At no period in recent history have defense weapons systems been under so much stress. Equipment is wearing out faster than expected. Equipment and parts shortages and overages are common.

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Maintenance today is either too often conducted reactively, after a costly failure occurs, or routinely, whether maintenance is needed or not. Increased energy and fuel costs add to the pressure, not only to keep equipment up and running, but operating at peak performance.

How SAS^® Can Help

SAS has helped commercial industry transform maintenance and service strategies from reactive and preventive to proactive and predictive. We did this by identifying emerging reliability issues early, cutting the cost of failure, increasing availability and reducing downtime and lifecycle costs.

SAS can help make condition-based maintenance, reliability-centered maintenance and predictive asset maintenance realities in military operations by helping you:

• Integrate and decode huge volumes of data from multiple sources – maintenance systems, parts requisitions, supply systems, log books, field service technician comments, embedded sensors, etc. – into a single data source that is optimized for reliability, data analysis, tracking and reporting.
• Transform data into a more usable format by automatically categorizing and separating text and analyzing relationships among isolated failures to find patterns and anomalies – without manual intervention.
• Analyze maintenance and logistics data, and send prioritized alerts to the appropriate people using automated maintenance- and reliability-specific predictive analytics to surface emerging issues, uncover potential problems and determine their root causes.
• Empower problem solvers with easy reporting functions that let them access critical information in a format they can understand without being experts in statistics.

The SAS^® Difference

SAS has proven repeatedly that it can solve the most complex logistics problems through:

• Interoperability: SAS software integrates with current legacy environments as well as newer ERP systems.
• Scalability: SAS demonstrates an ability not only to manage, but also optimize the enormous amounts of data prevalent throughout defense organizations – and do so quickly.
• Experience: With deep experience in many industries – banking, manufacturing, healthcare and life sciences to name a few – SAS brings tested best practices that yield positive results.
• Commitment: SAS exercises a strong and continuing commitment to research and development, education and support for SAS customers and their most complex business problems.

Related Products

Reduce unplanned maintenance and downtime, predict outage-causing events before they occur and run assets at peak performance to improve quality and reduce energy costs with SAS Predictive Asset Maintenance.

See how SAS cross-industry solutions help organizations balance cost with availability to their customers with SAS Warranty Analysis and SAS Service Parts Optimization.

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