Predictive action
Action taken to optimise the timing of an intervention on the basis of expected future condition, rather than in response to something that has already gone wrong.
Clause 10.3 of ISO 55001 was called preventive action in the 2014 edition. In the 2024 second edition it is called predictive action, and ISO records it as renamed and fully technically revised, which is a stronger statement than a rename alone.
The shift is from whether to intervene to when. Answering the second question requires condition information collected repeatedly rather than once, a view of how the asset class deteriorates, and a funding route capable of acting before anything has failed.
Sources
ISO 55001:2024, Clause 10.3, predictive action, renamed from preventive action and fully technically revised in the second edition, and listed by ISO among the main changes. Clause 9.1 covers monitoring, measurement, analysis and evaluation.
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- ISO 55001:2024, asset management system requirementsAbstract and contents free; the requirement text is sold.
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Preventive became predictive, and most organisations cannot do the second