MYTH: “CBM doesn’t make sense on older machines.”
“The vessel is already 15–20 years old, and the engines are close to the end of their service life anyway. Why invest?”
FACT: Older units actually generate the highest risk of costly failures.
🔹 Bearings, shafts, turbines – everything is already partially worn.
🔹 An unexpected shutdown during a voyage means losses counted in hundreds of thousands of USD per day.
What does CBM provide?
Early signals of wear (e.g., an increase in shaft vibration).
The ability to plan maintenance in port – instead of dealing with a failure in the middle of the ocean.
Shorter downtimes – because you’re not dismantling healthy components “just in case.”
Starting with CBM = a low investment threshold
✅ It doesn’t require massive CAPEX.
✅ Quarterly payment models are possible, aligned with fleet budgets.
✅ Benefits appear from the very first detected case – a single avoided failure can pay for the entire program.
The truth is:
Older machinery is not a reason to avoid CBM.
It’s the strongest reason to implement CBM as soon as possible.
If you operate aging vessels or machinery, now is the time to rethink your maintenance strategy. Start small, monitor the right parameters, and prevent the failures that really cost you.