Semantic Framework for Predictive Maintenance in a Cloud Environment

Proper maintenance of manufacturing equipment is crucial to ensure productivity and product quality. To improve maintenance decision support, and enable prediction-as-a-service there is a need to provide the context required to differentiate between process and machine degradation. Correlating machine conditions with process and inspection data involves data integration of different types such as condition monitoring, inspection and process data. Moreover, data from a variety of sources can appear in different formats and with different sampling rates. This paper highlights those challenges and presents a semantic framework for data collection, synthesis and knowledge sharing in a Cloud environment for predictive maintenance.