Abstract Predictive Maintenance (PdM) in industrial plants aims not only to reduce the failure
rates of assets, but also to increment their useful life. However, additional costs must be
faced when adopting such a policy, and granting that it will have a positive impact in the long
term is not a trivial issue. The implementation of PdM should then be justified from a strategic
perspective. Efforts have been made to develop models that provide guidance for the
strategic implementation of PdM policies. However, these models generally consider only …