Industry 4.0 - Potentials for Predictive Maintenance

Abstract: Industry 4.0 represents the coming fourth industrial revolution on the way to combine modern industries with Cyber-Physical Systems, Internet of Things and Internet of Services. In an Industry 4.0 factory, machines are connected as a collaborative community to collect, exchange and analyse data systematically. This paper investigates the potentials and trends of predictive maintenance and maintenance management in industrial big data and Cyber-Physical Systems environment. Furthermore, the development of predictive maintenance, its technical challenges, and the potentials under Industry 4.0 era was researched to discover the linkage between Industry 4.0 and predictive maintenance