Can Condition Monitoring improve your plant performance

Abstract Most of us have heard of the ter condition Monitoring (CM). Some understand and embrace the concept, so a are frightened by the costs, others simply don't think it is applicable to their plant and a few don't believe in new fangled concepts like CM, believing what has al ays been good enough far their plant is good enough now. Paul Poste asks if Cm can really make a difference to your plants and asks if it (as very CM salesman says) can reduce unscheduled plant stoppage, reduce machine breakdown and expenditure on aehine spare parts.