Services to Facilitate Predictive Maintenance in Industry4.0

The advent of Industry4.0 in automation and data exchange leads to a constant evolution towards intelligent environments, including an intensive adoption of Cyber-Physical System features. Thus, full integration of manufacturing IT and control systems with physical objects embedded with electronics, software, and sensors are being deployed. This new industrial model leads to a pervasive integration of information and communication technology into production assets, generating massive amounts of data. Several software applications use such information for addressing versatile production requirements, such as predictive analytics, visualisation, and scheduling. Such services aim to facilitate daily maintenance activities and provide insight upon production assets and processes in a human-understandable way. In this chapter, the main services of the SERENA system exposed through its platform and towards supporting maintenance activities on the shopfloor are presented.