
Automotive Tier-1 Supplier Eliminates Unplanned Downtime with Causal Predictive Maintenance
Challenge
A major Tier-1 automotive supplier operating 40+ CNC machining centers faced recurring unplanned downtime of 18–22% across their precision manufacturing line. Traditional condition monitoring only detected failures after vibration thresholds were breached, leaving no time for meaningful intervention. Root cause analysis took 6–8 hours per incident, and maintenance teams were reactive rather than prescriptive. Annual losses from downtime, scrap, and expedited shipping exceeded ₹12 Crore.