Society for Machinery Failure Prevention Technology (Mfpt)

provides a forum and annual conference for the pursuit of tools and capabilities to prevent equipment failures while in service. uses data acquisition (sensors), data managment, data analysis, diagnostics prognostics and decision support tools to understand the health of a systsem or its critial components to determine when degradation will lead to failure so that appropriate remedial action can take place before the failure occurs. applies to all vehciles (air, sea, land) buildings and plant machinery.