Condition-based maintenance 🔧 is powerful. Monitor what's happening and act only when needed. But some maintenance tasks still need to track time 🕑. Regulatory requirements don't care if your asset is running smoothly. Some failure modes are unpredictable and preventive by nature. And if your equipment runs 2 hours in winter and 18 in summer, a calendar-based schedule is useless. You need to track actual operating hours since the last maintenance event.
The strongest programs use both. You monitor bearing temperature and oil quality in real time. You also ensure critical seals get replaced every 5,000 operating hours. With TrendMiner's custom calculation feature, you can build a time-since-maintenance tag by defining the operating conditions that "count" toward your interval, then tallying the actual hours. Set a monitor and get alerted when you hit the threshold. When the equipment has actually earned the maintenance.
Want to build operating-hour counters for your equipment? Reach out to your Customer Success Manager to learn how to use TrendMiner's custom calculation feature. It only takes a few minutes to set up!
