Industry 4.0 describes an important technological advancement driving automation and data exchange in the manufacturing environment to provide smart production with its efficiency improvements, while setting the requirements and needs for necessary and essential tools to specifically enable the change. In smart production, improvements and adjustments to the production processes can be achieved with effective Internet of Things (IoT) tools that analyse and manage the sensor-collected data using Predictive Maintenance (PdM) techniques. PdM is a right-on-time maintenance strategy designed to determine the condition of in-service equipment to help predicting and deciding when maintenance actions should be performed. Maintenance tasks are performed only when warranted, leading to cost savings over routine or time-based preventive maintenance. The basis for PdM is the Condition-based Maintenance (CBM) concept. CBM techniques are already used in many industrial manufacturing areas, and the techniques include e.g. vibration analysis, lubricant contaminant analysis, and process performance monitoring, using information fusion techniques with multi-parameter measurements.
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