Preventive Maintenance for Critical Infrastructure: The Key to Ensuring CI Performance and Resilience How AI-powered surveillance facilitates preventive maintenance to maximize the performance, reliability, and resilience of critical infrastructure
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he utilities sector is the backbone of the modern economy. By providing essential public services like electricity, clean water, and gas, utilities organizations help to improve the quality of human life and also spur a nation’s social and economic growth. It’s a fact that in every country, utilities are considered critical infrastructure. It’s also a fact that any breakdowns or disruptions in this infrastructure can have catastrophic consequences on that country. To avoid these consequences, it’s vital to safeguard utilities systems from the threats, vulnerabilities, and day-to-day wear-and-tear that may adversely affect their operations and performance. And this starts with preventive maintenance.
Preventive Maintenance: Critical for Critical Infrastructure Preventive maintenance is a proactive strategy to prevent future breakdowns and malfunctions in utilities equipment and systems. Ongoing preventive maintenance enables utilities organizations to identify and address vulnerabilities in their assets before they can lead to costly breakdowns or failures. Through proactive inspections, upgrades, cleaning, or replacements, they can optimize asset operations and performance, maintain mission-critical communication networks and control systems, and reduce the need for costly reactive repairs.