The paper goes through the developments of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the area of Condition Monitoring (CM) and Maintenance with the aim to understand the current state of the ICTs developments in the area of interest as well as their future prospects. The findings are ordered into a framework, which emphasizes the diverse maturity aspects when it comes to the use of these technologies. The results show that the researchers are working with various ICT applications that are in the different eras of the framework. There are findings that support the last era, i.e. the fourth era, but those findings are fewer. However, the applications that support this last era, even if they are at the primary stage, is the e-maintenance approach especially when the knowledge driven approaches are considered in their applications. The e-maintenance approach apart from its integration capabilities also considers other important aspects such as collaboration, cooperation, and organisational learning as well as companies' strategies such as the condition based maintenance, etc. it is, therefore, important to consider the e-maintenance approach as a facilitator for the entrance into the fourth era, which promises sustainability in the use of the ICTs for the domain of interests as well as higher organizational performance