Semiconductor Engineering

"As an engineering concept, predictive maintenance has been around for close to a hundred years. In “The Innovation Delusion,” authors Lee Vinsel and Andrew Russell wrote, “The roots of predictive maintenance lie in T. C. Rathbone’s 1939 paper ‘Vibrational Tolerance,’ in which he asserted that machines vibrated more as their conditions deteriorated. If engineers and managers could measure vibrations, he reasoned, they’d be more likely to spot problems before machines broke and halted production.”[1]"

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