The SERENA project has provided a deep dive into an almost complete IIoT platform, leveraging all the knowledge from all the partners involved, merging in the platform many competencies and technological solutions. The two main aspects of the project for COMAU are the container-based architecture and the analytics pipeline. Indeed, those are the two components that more have been leveraged internally, and which have inspired COMAU effort in developing the new versions of its IIoT offering portfolio. The predictive maintenance solutions, developed under the scope of the project, have confirmed the potential of that kind of solutions, confirming the expectations.
On the contrary, another takeaway was the central need for a huge amount of data, possibly labelled, containing at least the main behaviour of the machine. That limits the generic sense that predictive maintenance is made by general rules which can easily be applied to any kind of machine with impressive results.
More concretely, predictive maintenance and, in general, analytics pipelines have the potential to be disruptive in the industrial scenario but, on the other hand, it seems to be a process that will take some time before being widely used, made not by few all-embracing algorithms, but instead by many vertical ones and applicable to a restricted set of machines or use cases, thus the most relevant.
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The SERENA project has provided a deep dive into an almost complete IIoT platform, leveraging all the knowledge from all the partners involved, merging in the platform many competencies and technological solutions. The two main aspects of the project for COMAU are the container-based architecture and the analytics pipeline. Indeed, those are the two components that more have been leveraged internally, and which have inspired COMAU effort in developing the new versions of its IIoT offering portfolio. The predictive maintenance solutions, developed under the scope of the project, have confirmed the potential of that kind of solutions, confirming the expectations.
On the contrary, another takeaway was the central need for a huge amount of data, possibly labelled, containing at least the main behaviour of the machine. That limits the generic sense that predictive maintenance is made by general rules which can easily be applied to any kind of machine with impressive results.
More concretely, predictive maintenance and, in general, analytics pipelines have the potential to be disruptive in the industrial scenario but, on the other hand, it seems to be a process that will take some time before being widely used, made not by few all-embracing algorithms, but instead by many vertical ones and applicable to a restricted set of machines or use cases, thus the most relevant.