Machine Learning for Machinery Prognostics and Health Management

Dear Colleagues,

Condition monitoring and prognostics should contribute to sustainable asset management. Knowledge, information and data must be used to detect anomalies, diagnose the causes of failure, predict the health of the system and estimate the remaining useful life to decide on the appropriate maintenance action. Machine learning has offered new tools to analyze the data from the production process, quality control or maintenance data. Sustainability requirements have extended the scope of the objectives, providing environmental and social indicators to be optimized. Consequently, the data field is wider than ever and artificial intelligence makes it possible to achieve outstanding results that more traditional methods cannot achieve. This is still true for the scope of Machines, which includes systems and control engineering, machine diagnostics and prognostics (condition monitoring).

This Special Issue of Machines will focus on but not be limited to advances in the application of AI to the life-cycle management of electromechanical equipment. This special issue will provide an excellent opportunity to bring together researchers working on machine learning models and algorithms for machine condition monitoring and prognostics.

Dr. Pierre Dehombreux
Prof. Dr. Bachir Elkihel
Prof. Dr. Fouad Riane
Guest Editors

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