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  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,652 Views
22 Pages

13 October 2021

The study of reliability, availability and control of industrial manufacturing machines is a constant challenge in the industrial environment. This paper compares the results offered by several maintenance strategies for multi-stage industrial manufa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,628 Views
12 Pages

Predictive Maintenance for Switch Machine Based on Digital Twins

  • Jia Yang,
  • Yongkui Sun,
  • Yuan Cao and
  • Xiaoxi Hu

22 November 2021

As a unique device of railway networks, the normal operation of switch machines involves railway safe and efficient operation. Predictive maintenance becomes the focus of the switch machine. Aiming at the low accuracy of the prediction state and the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
13,207 Views
17 Pages

A Reliability-Centered Maintenance Study for an Individual Section-Forming Machine

  • Samuel Okwuobi,
  • Felix Ishola,
  • Oluseyi Ajayi,
  • Enesi Salawu,
  • Abraham Aworinde,
  • Obafemi Olatunji and
  • Stephen A. Akinlabi

26 October 2018

This study investigated the breakdown trend in an automated production with an aim to recommend the application of reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) for improved productivity via a new preventive maintenance (PM) program. An individual section-f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,701 Views
17 Pages

15 October 2023

Predictive maintenance is a proactive approach to maintenance in which equipment and machinery are monitored and analyzed to predict when maintenance is needed. Instead of relying on fixed schedules or reacting to breakdowns, predictive maintenance u...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,703 Views
10 Pages

15 September 2025

Predicting vehicle maintenance is an important task to reduce downtime and cost. Traditional methods based on mileage and manufacturer direction can lead to maintenance at an early stage or too late. By leveraging machine learning, we can predict mai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,009 Views
16 Pages

Signal Spectrum-Based Machine Learning Approach for Fault Prediction and Maintenance of Electrical Machines

  • Hadi Ashraf Raja,
  • Karolina Kudelina,
  • Bilal Asad,
  • Toomas Vaimann,
  • Ants Kallaste,
  • Anton Rassõlkin and
  • Huynh Van Khang

15 December 2022

Industrial revolution 4.0 has enabled the advent of new technological advancements, including the introduction of information technology with physical devices. The implementation of information technology in industrial applications has helped streaml...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,548 Views
19 Pages

Predictive maintenance is essential for reducing industrial downtime and costs, yet real-world datasets frequently encounter class imbalance and require cost-sensitive evaluation due to costly misclassification errors. This study utilises the SCANIA...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,952 Views
21 Pages

Maintenance is an activity that cannot be separated from the context of product manufacturing. It is carried out to maintain the components’ or machines’ function so that no failure can reduce the machine’s productivity. One type of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,535 Views
27 Pages

17 May 2024

Condition-based maintenance of a machine tool spindle unit is known to reduce the total cost of operation in a manufacturing environment. However, standard vibration monitoring thresholds, which are based only on average vibration energy levels, do n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
139 Citations
23,314 Views
27 Pages

14 March 2022

With the advent of the fourth industrial revolution, the application of artificial intelligence in the manufacturing domain is becoming prevalent. Maintenance is one of the important activities in the manufacturing process, and it requires proper att...

  • Article
  • Open Access
128 Citations
21,039 Views
14 Pages

Predictive Maintenance in Building Facilities: A Machine Learning-Based Approach

  • Yassine Bouabdallaoui,
  • Zoubeir Lafhaj,
  • Pascal Yim,
  • Laure Ducoulombier and
  • Belkacem Bennadji

3 February 2021

The operation and maintenance of buildings has seen several advances in recent years. Multiple information and communication technology (ICT) solutions have been introduced to better manage building maintenance. However, maintenance practices in buil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
17,817 Views
25 Pages

A Machine Learning Implementation to Predictive Maintenance and Monitoring of Industrial Compressors

  • Ahmad Aminzadeh,
  • Sasan Sattarpanah Karganroudi,
  • Soheil Majidi,
  • Colin Dabompre,
  • Khalil Azaiez,
  • Christopher Mitride and
  • Eric Sénéchal

8 February 2025

Integrating machine learning algorithms leveraged by advanced data acquisition systems is emerging as a pivotal approach in predictive maintenance. This paper presents the deployment of such an integration on an industrial air compressor unit. This r...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,461 Views
8 Pages

Machine Learning Models Applied to Predictive Maintenance in Automotive Engine Components

  • Iron Tessaro,
  • Viviana Cocco Mariani and
  • Leandro dos Santos Coelho

21 November 2020

Fault detection on automotive engine components is an important feature that motivates research from different engineering areas due to the interest of automakers in its potential to increase safety, reliability, and lifespan and to reduce pollutant...

  • Article
  • Open Access
80 Citations
22,161 Views
16 Pages

An Artificial Intelligence Approach for Improving Maintenance to Supervise Machine Failures and Support Their Repair

  • Izabela Rojek,
  • Małgorzata Jasiulewicz-Kaczmarek,
  • Mariusz Piechowski and
  • Dariusz Mikołajewski

15 April 2023

Maintenance of production equipment has a key role in ensuring business continuity and productivity. Determining the implementation time and the appropriate selection of the scope of maintenance activities are necessary not only for the operation of...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,590 Views
14 Pages

Using machine learning to predict maintenance schedules for crude oil pipelines is crucial for enhancing efficiency and minimizing disruptions in the oil and gas sector. Our research explores the effectiveness of machine learning algorithms in this c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,599 Views
16 Pages

Intelligent Thermal Condition Monitoring for Predictive Maintenance of Gas Turbines Using Machine Learning

  • Sadiq T. Bunyan,
  • Zeashan Hameed Khan,
  • Luttfi A. Al-Haddad,
  • Hayder Abed Dhahad,
  • Mustafa I. Al-Karkhi,
  • Ahmed Ali Farhan Ogaili and
  • Zainab T. Al-Sharify

Gas turbines play a crucial role in power generation and aviation, where effective maintenance strategies are essential to ensure reliability. Traditional condition monitoring methods often rely on scheduled inspections, leading to potential downtime...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,095 Views
12 Pages

25 February 2025

Manufacturing areas typically conduct machine maintenance to prevent early failures and to ensure a safe working environment and efficient production. In this study, the green unrelated parallel machine scheduling problem (GUPMSP) is studied. Besides...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,409 Views
20 Pages

29 December 2023

The maintenance strategies commonly employed in industrial settings primarily rely on theoretical models that often overlook the actual operating conditions. To address this limitation, the present paper introduces a novel selective predictive mainte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
116 Citations
12,181 Views
17 Pages

SOPHIA: An Event-Based IoT and Machine Learning Architecture for Predictive Maintenance in Industry 4.0

  • Matteo Calabrese,
  • Martin Cimmino,
  • Francesca Fiume,
  • Martina Manfrin,
  • Luca Romeo,
  • Silvia Ceccacci,
  • Marina Paolanti,
  • Giuseppe Toscano,
  • Giovanni Ciandrini and
  • Dimos Kapetis
  • + 2 authors

9 April 2020

Predictive Maintenance (PdM) is a prominent strategy comprising all the operational techniques and actions required to ensure machine availability and to prevent a machine-down failure. One of the main challenges of PdM is to design and develop an em...

  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
5,319 Views
17 Pages

8 July 2020

A condition-based maintenance policy for offshore wind turbines is presented in consideration of the maintenance uncertainty and the weather effect. In this paper, the offshore wind turbine is divided into four main assemblies—namely, the rotor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,382 Views
21 Pages

29 March 2025

Predictive maintenance is essential for improving the efficiency of equipment and reducing downtime in industrial operations. This study investigates the application of machine learning in predictive maintenance, specifically emphasizing data preproc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
12,007 Views
26 Pages

27 June 2024

Predictive maintenance (PdM) is the most suitable for production efficiency and cost reduction, aiming to perform maintenance actions when needed, avoiding unwanted failures and unnecessary preventive actions. The increasing use of 4.0 technologies i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,268 Views
19 Pages

SemKoRe: Improving Machine Maintenance in Industrial IoT with Semantic Knowledge Graphs

  • Hicham Hossayni,
  • Imran Khan,
  • Mohammad Aazam,
  • Amin Taleghani-Isfahani and
  • Noel Crespi

11 September 2020

The recent focus on sustainability and improved efficiency requires innovative approaches in industrial automation. We present SemKoRe, a knowledge graph developed to improve machine maintenance in the industrial domain. SemKoRe is vendor-agnostic, i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,057 Views
26 Pages

Machine Learning-Based Predictive Maintenance for Photovoltaic Systems

  • Ali Al-Humairi,
  • Enmar Khalis,
  • Zuhair A. Al-Hemyari and
  • Peter Jung

20 June 2025

The performance of photovoltaic systems is highly dependent on environmental conditions, with soiling due to dust accumulation often being referred to as a predominant energy degradation factor, especially in dry and semi-arid environments. This pape...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,641 Views
33 Pages

29 January 2023

While some areas of software engineering knowledge present great advances with respect to the automation of processes, tools, and practices, areas such as software maintenance have scarcely been addressed by either industry or academia, thus delegati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,872 Views
19 Pages

30 January 2025

Variable machine efficiency (VME) and maintenance activities (MA) are critical factors often unexplored in job scheduling problems. This paper introduces a new problem termed the job-shop scheduling problem with variable machine efficiency and mainte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,849 Views
17 Pages

14 September 2024

The development of artificial intelligence-based tools is having a big impact on industry. In this context, the maintenance operations of important assets and industrial resources are changing, both from a theoretical and a practical perspective. Nam...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
8,223 Views
20 Pages

In the era of Industry 4.0 and beyond, ball bearings remain an important part of industrial systems. The failure of ball bearings can lead to plant downtime, inefficient operations, and significant maintenance expenses. Although conventional preventi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
76 Citations
11,094 Views
34 Pages

12 March 2021

The increasing availability of data, gathered by sensors and intelligent machines, is changing the way decisions are made in the manufacturing sector. In particular, based on predictive approach and facilitated by the nowadays growing capabilities of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
680 Views
12 Pages

22 October 2025

Industrial machine tools are both performance assets and environmental hotspots over their long service lives. Maintenance is traditionally optimized to safeguard availability, quality and cost. However, maintenance choices also determine the energy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,066 Views
23 Pages

29 October 2023

Ships serve as crucial transporters of cargo and passengers in substantial volumes and operate for a long time; therefore, an efficient maintenance system is essential for economical and stable vessel operation. In this study, a machine learning base...

  • Review
  • Open Access
662 Citations
77,690 Views
42 Pages

Machine Learning in Predictive Maintenance towards Sustainable Smart Manufacturing in Industry 4.0

  • Zeki Murat Çınar,
  • Abubakar Abdussalam Nuhu,
  • Qasim Zeeshan,
  • Orhan Korhan,
  • Mohammed Asmael and
  • Babak Safaei

5 October 2020

Recently, with the emergence of Industry 4.0 (I4.0), smart systems, machine learning (ML) within artificial intelligence (AI), predictive maintenance (PdM) approaches have been extensively applied in industries for handling the health status of indus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,390 Views
20 Pages

29 September 2022

Making the correct maintenance strategy decision for industrial multistage machines (MSTM) is a constant challenge for industrial manufacturers. Preventive maintenance strategies are the most popular and provide interesting results but cannot prevent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,540 Views
26 Pages

Optimising Maintenance Planning and Integrity in Offshore Facilities Using Machine Learning and Design Science: A Predictive Approach

  • Marina Polonia Rios,
  • Rodrigo Goyannes Gusmão Caiado,
  • Yiselis Rodríguez Vignon,
  • Eduardo Thadeu Corseuil and
  • Paulo Ivson Netto Santos

25 November 2024

This research presents an innovative solution to optimise maintenance planning and integrity in offshore facilities, specifically regarding corrosion management. The study introduces a prototype for maintenance planning on offshore oil platforms, dev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,321 Views
20 Pages

Playful Probes for Design Interaction with Machine Learning: A Tool for Aircraft Condition-Based Maintenance Planning and Visualisation

  • Jorge Ribeiro,
  • Pedro Andrade,
  • Manuel Carvalho,
  • Catarina Silva,
  • Bernardete Ribeiro and
  • Licínio Roque

Aircraft maintenance is a complex domain where designing new systems that include Machine Learning (ML) algorithms can become a challenge. In the context of designing a tool for Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM) in aircraft maintenance planning, this...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,158 Views
5 Pages

This research examines advanced machine learning techniques utilized for the predictive maintenance of industrial machinery. A hybrid model combining long-term memory networks (LSTM) and gated recurrent unit (GRU) networks alongside a random forest c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,664 Views
20 Pages

13 April 2025

Single- and small-batch production requires flexible production control to maximise machine reliability and minimise delivery delays. Existing planning approaches often do not take into account the dynamic production conditions of these environments,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,705 Views
20 Pages

13 August 2024

For manufacturing systems such as hot rolling, where there is no wait in the production process, breaks between adjacent production batches provide “opportunities” for predictive maintenance. With the extensive application of industrial r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
7,298 Views
21 Pages

Machine Learning-Based Predictive Maintenance at Smart Ports Using IoT Sensor Data

  • Sheraz Aslam,
  • Alejandro Navarro,
  • Andreas Aristotelous,
  • Eduardo Garro Crevillen,
  • Alvaro Martınez-Romero,
  • Álvaro Martínez-Ceballos,
  • Alessandro Cassera,
  • Kyriacos Orphanides,
  • Herodotos Herodotou and
  • Michalis P. Michaelides

24 June 2025

Maritime transportation plays a critical role in global containerized cargo logistics, with seaports serving as key nodes in this system. Ports are responsible for container loading and unloading, along with inspection, storage, and timely delivery t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
597 Views
24 Pages

The rapid proliferation of Industry 4.0 technologies has created an urgent need for intelligent and reliable predictive maintenance (PdM) systems. While multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) frameworks like the Best–Worst Method (BWM) offer str...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,829 Views
14 Pages

17 January 2025

This study investigates the potential of deploying a neural network model on an advanced programmable logic controller (PLC), specifically the Finder Opta™, for real-time inference within the predictive maintenance framework. In the context of...

  • Review
  • Open Access
109 Citations
14,766 Views
24 Pages

Integration of Novel Sensors and Machine Learning for Predictive Maintenance in Medium Voltage Switchgear to Enable the Energy and Mobility Revolutions

  • Martin W. Hoffmann,
  • Stephan Wildermuth,
  • Ralf Gitzel,
  • Aydin Boyaci,
  • Jörg Gebhardt,
  • Holger Kaul,
  • Ido Amihai,
  • Bodo Forg,
  • Michael Suriyah and
  • Tanja Tornede
  • + 6 authors

8 April 2020

The development of renewable energies and smart mobility has profoundly impacted the future of the distribution grid. An increasing bidirectional energy flow stresses the assets of the distribution grid, especially medium voltage switchgear. This cal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,859 Views
22 Pages

10 August 2023

Multiple ducts in the working shaft and main body of tunnels form a combined tee structure. An efficient and accurate prediction method for the local resistance coefficient is the key to the design and optimization of the maintenance ventilation sche...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,763 Views
17 Pages

11 October 2024

The incompleteness of the existing knowledge graphs in the railway domain creates information gaps, impacting their quality and effectiveness in the operation and maintenance of high-speed railway turnout switch machines. To address this, we propose...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
9,034 Views
18 Pages

15 January 2021

In every business, the production of knowledge, coming from the process of effective information, is recognized as a strategic asset and source of competitive advantage. In the field of railways, a vast amount of data are produced, which is necessary...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
12,511 Views
24 Pages

Application-Wise Review of Machine Learning-Based Predictive Maintenance: Trends, Challenges, and Future Directions

  • Christos Tsallis,
  • Panagiotis Papageorgas,
  • Dimitrios Piromalis and
  • Radu Adrian Munteanu

28 April 2025

This systematic literature review (SLR) provides a comprehensive application-wise analysis of machine learning (ML)-driven predictive maintenance (PdM) across industrial domains. Motivated by the digital transformation of industry 4.0, this study exp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,190 Views
27 Pages

21 April 2022

Transportation agencies constantly strive to tackle the challenge of limited budgets and continuously deteriorating highway infrastructure. They look for optimal solutions to make intelligent maintenance and repair investments. Condition prediction o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
73 Citations
7,465 Views
17 Pages

18 January 2022

The operation and maintenance (O&M) of buildings plays an important role in ensuring that the buildings work normally, as well as reducing the damage caused by functional errors. There are obvious problems in the traditional O&M modality, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,927 Views
37 Pages

Braking systems are essential to aircraft safety and operational efficiency; however, the variability of carbon brake wear, driven by the intricate interplay of operational and environmental factors, presents challenges for effective maintenance plan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,146 Views
17 Pages

26 November 2022

In the context of understanding interaction with artificial intelligence algorithms in a decision support system, this study addresses the use of a playful probe as a potential speculative design approach. We describe the process of researching a new...

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