• Comment:

    In particular, the project aims the development of intelligent and predictive maintenance systems for the new manufacturing trends of mass customisation and individualisation. Increased reliability of production systems is considered to be crucial for securing competitive advantage for manufacturing companies. At present, maintenance in general and predictive maintenance strategies in particular are facing significant challenges in dealing with the evolution of the equipment, instrumentation and manufacturing processes they support. So, preventive maintenance strategies designed for traditional highly repetitive and stable mass production processes based on predefined components and machine behaviour models are no longer valid and more adaptive and responsive (predictive-prescriptive) maintenance strategies are needed.