Study 22: Predictive maintenance

Digital technology offers numerous opportunities to improve industrial competitiveness, particularly in terms of energy efficiency. In this context, the ALLICE study on the benefits of Big Data Analytics has highlighted the advantages that industrial maintenance services can derive from it, particularly through predictive maintenance.

By monitoring signs of wear and tear, predictive maintenance helps to optimise the operation of industrial facilities and, as a result, improve their energy efficiency.

It is one of the preventive maintenance activities available to ensure the operational availability of equipment, alongside improvement maintenance, systematic preventive maintenance and condition-based preventive maintenance.

This review of the current state of the art consists of three parts:

• Maintenance objectives
• Maintenance terminology
• Implementation of predictive maintenance