Optimal maintenance plan for higher uptime

ABB Ability™ Predictive Maintenance for motors and generators optimizes the maintenance of diesel and gas engine generators and synchronous motors and generators. Taking a condition-based approach, it combines customer input with advanced analytical techniques to create the optimal maintenance program. This ensures that the right actions are taken at the right time and for the right reasons.

ABB Ability™ Predictive Maintenance process

ABB Ability™ Predictive Maintenance for motors and generators brings together ABB's condition monitoring, onsite visual inspection and life expectancy analysis program to make maintenance planning easy.

  1. Review operations and maintenance

    We ask you to complete an initial business driver and historical data questionnaire and provide relevant maintenance history. We review any past service history undertaken by us.

  2. Audit asset condition and spares

    A local ABB technician carries out an on-site audit and base condition assessment. The content may differ depending on whether the asset is running or stopped.

  3. Address critical issues

    If we find a critical condition during our initial audit, we will alert you and recommend a course of action.

  4. Analyze collected data

    The ABB Ability™ Predictive Maintenance program analyzes all the gathered data and our expert center validates the recommended maintenance and condition surveillance plan.

  5. Co-create the plan

    This is the core of the process. We meet with you to go through the recommended plan in detail. Working together, we agree on a final 5-year plan that matches your specific needs and budget

  6. Follow the plan

    Undertake periodic non-invasive condition techniques and planned maintenance activities to the agreed schedule. Sustain high reliability and uptime by only doing the right actions at the right time.

Key benefits

Optimized maintenance planning

This service ensures your equipment gets the right attention at the right time—maximizing reliability, performance, and your assets' value.

Higher uptime

By minimizing unplanned stoppages, aligning maintenance with scheduled plant shutdowns, and allowing longer intervals between rotor removals, the ABB Ability™ Predictive Maintenance helps you maximize uptime and plan maintenance more efficiently.

Reduced maintenance costs

Maintenance is performed only when necessary, and parts are replaced only when truly needed—helping you reduce costs and avoid unnecessary downtime. Visual inspections of the stator core, rotor core, and windings can be carried out without removing the rotor, making the process faster, safer, and less disruptive to operations.

Longer equipment life

Timely maintenance helps extend equipment lifetime and prevents secondary damage—ensuring reliable performance and reducing unexpected costs.

Related offering

ABB Ability™ LEAP for motors and generators

ABB Ability™ LEAP (Life Expectancy Analysis Program) analyzes the condition and expected lifetime of the stator winding insulation. It detects potential problems before they become critical and lead to expensive downtime, enabling you to plan maintenance in advance.

Air gap inspection

The service allows a visual inspection of the stator core, rotor core and winding without removing the rotor, making it possible to detect faults quickly and safely.

ABB Ability™ Condition Monitoring for powertrains

A suite of digital solutions and services that enables you to remotely monitor the health, performance and energy efficiency of powertrains, including drives, motors, generators and applications.

ABB Ability™ Condition Monitoring for shaftlines

An on-site condition monitoring service that improves the reliability of the entire shaftline, including motor, gearbox and driven load.

Preventive maintenance

An investment that helps avoid failures. ABB’s services are built on extensive experience in manufacturing and maintaining drives, motors, and generators.