AI Maintenance Is Quietly Saving Trillions: Guide to Predictive & Prescriptive Maintenance – What It Is, Who’s Winning, and How to Start
Predictive maintenance forecasts failure risk from condition signals. Prescriptive maintenance goes further by recommending actions, parts, and timing to optimize cost, uptime, and risk. In 2025, the stack typically combines: “Now operators, reliability engineers, and technicians can interact with the AI directly and do their jobs much more efficiently.” — Anuradha Bhamidipaty, IBM Research. IBM Research