An Industry 4.0 Oriented Predictive Maintenance Solution Deployed in Real-World Automotive Manufacturing Facilities

Industry 4.0 drives a significant revolution in the industrial manufacturing area in recent years, with predictive maintenance consolidating its potential to increase efficiency and productivity by reducing downtime. The research presented in the current paper transposes the previously mentioned concepts into a real-world automotive manufacturing facility. A software solution capable of predicting the probability of wear down-induced cylinder break downs was developed and installed at an industrial partner, aiming to reduce the number of productivity-impacting complete production line shutdown events.