PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE
Condition Monitoring Sensor Procurement Guide
Select condition-monitoring sensors using failure modes, measurement range, mounting, sampling, environment, connectivity, analytics ownership and maintainability.
Start from failure modes
- Identify which machine failure modes the measurement is intended to detect before selecting sensor technology.
- Define required vibration, temperature, current or other measurement range and expected warning horizon.
- Separate screening indicators from measurements that need expert spectral or waveform analysis.
Installation and data
- Specify mounting, orientation, environmental rating, power and communication constraints.
- Confirm sampling, storage and data access are sufficient for the intended analysis rather than dashboard presentation alone.
- Plan naming, asset hierarchy and baseline collection so data remains interpretable after deployment.
Lifecycle
- Define battery/service intervals for wireless devices and calibration or verification needs where relevant.
- Evaluate export/API access and ownership of historical data before committing to a platform.
- Pilot on known assets and compare alerts with maintenance findings before scaling.
Professional references
These references establish the standards, technical framework or authoritative engineering context used for this page. Vendor commercial terms are not used as engineering evidence.
- NIST Manufacturing Extension Partnership — Primary U.S. manufacturing-assistance and operational-improvement context.
- NIST Smart Manufacturing Systems Test Bed — NIST reference environment for manufacturing systems, data and integration.
- ISA-95 / IEC 62264 Enterprise-Control System Integration — Reference architecture for manufacturing operations and enterprise-control integration.
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