UPTIME | UNIFIED PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE SYSTEM
01-09-2017
-28-02-2021
UPTIME will enable manufacturing companies to reach Gartner's four levels of data analytics maturity for optimised decision making - each one building on the previous one: Monitor, Diagnose and Control, Manage, Optimize - aims to optimise in-service efficiency and contribute to increased accident mitigation capability by avoiding crucial breakdowns with significant consequences. UPTIME Components UPTIME_DETECT & UPTIME_PREDICT and UPTIME_ANALYZE aim to enhance the methodology framework for data processing and analytics. The key role for the UPTIME_DETECT and UPTIME_PREDICT components are data scientists who are in charge of developing, testing and deploying algorithmic calculations on data streams. In this way, the component is able to to identify the current condition of technical equipment and to give predictions. On the other hand, the UPTIME_ANALYZE is a data analytics engine driven by the need to leverage manufacturers’ legacy data and operational data related to maintenance, and to extract and correlate relevant knowledge.
The "Persistence" layer in the UPTIME conceptual architecture includes a Database Abstraction Layer (DAL) and houses of relational database engine as well as a NoSQL database, where all information needed by the "User Interaction" and "Real-Time Procesing and Batch Processing" layers (refer to UPTIME conceptual architecture) is stored and retrieved. For the raw sensor data itself, this data storage concept is enhanced by a database for time-series data to ensure efficient and reliable storage, while visualization functionalities will use an indexing database to facilitate the exposure of analytics. In these databases, all information needed by the other three layers is stored and retrieved. The UPTIME solution aims to provide data harmonization in terms of manipulating streaming data coming from the sensors. Based upon these needs a time series database is needed and in the context of UPTIME three instances of influxDB (one instance per business case) are installed. Along with the influxDB instances, a common MySQL database that will handle the operations of the UPTIME system is created.
UPTIME will reframe predictive maintenance strategy in a systematic and unified way with the aim to fully exploit the advancements in ICT and maintenance management by examining the potential of big data in an e-maintenance infrastructure taking into account the Gartner’s four levels of data analytics maturity and the
proactive computing principles.