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Asset Performance Management (APM)

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Definition

Predictive maintenance platform category.

Asset Performance Management (APM) is a software discipline that combines condition monitoring, reliability analytics, and maintenance planning to predict equipment failure and prioritize intervention across a fleet’s machinery. On ships it ingests sensor data structured to ISO 19848:2018 (standard data for shipboard machinery and equipment) through an ISO 19847:2018 data server, then applies failure-mode and remaining-useful-life models to main engines, pumps, and auxiliaries. APM underpins class condition-based maintenance schemes that let an operator defer survey-mandated overhauls when monitored data shows the asset is healthy.

Source: ISO 19848:2018 Standard data for shipboard machinery and equipment; ISO 19847:2018 Shipboard data servers