The Mantis Book: Cyber Physical System Based Proactive Collaborative Maintenance

In recent years, a considerable amount of effort has been devoted, both in industry and academia, to improving maintenance. Time is a critical factor in maintenance, and efforts are placed to monitor, analyze, and visualize machine or asset data in order to anticipate to any possible failure, prevent damage, and save costs.

The MANTIS Book aims to highlight the underpinning fundamentals of Condition-Based Maintenance related conceptual ideas, an overall idea of preventive maintenance, the economic impact and technical solution.

The core content of this book describes the outcome of the Cyber-Physical System based Proactive Collaborative Maintenance project, also known as MANTIS, and funded by EU ECSEL Joint Undertaking under Grant Agreement nº 662189. The ambition has been to support the creation of a maintenance-oriented reference architecture that support the maintenance data lifecycle, to enable the use of novel kinds of maintenance strategies for industrial machinery. The key enabler has been the fine blend of collecting data through Cyber-Physical Systems, and the usage of machine learning techniques and advanced visualization for the enhanced monitoring of the machines.

Topics discussed include, in the context of maintenance: Cyber-Physical Systems, Communication Middleware, Machine Learning, Advanced Visualization, Business Models, Future Trends. An important focus of the book is the application of the techniques in real world context, and in fact all the work is driven by the pilots, all of them centered on real machines and factories.

This book is suitable for industrial and maintenance managers that want to implement a new strategy for maintenance in their companies. It should give readers a basic idea on the first steps to implementing a maintenance-oriented platform or information system.

 

Dr. Michele Albano is Research Associate in the CISTER Research Unit of the Polytechnic of Porto (Portugal), and Adjunct Professor at Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave (Portugal). His research focuses on Cyber Physical Systems and Communication Middleware, in particular for the application areas of industrial maintenance, smart grids, and vehicular networks. He is a Founding Member of the Technical Committee on Green Communications and Computing (TCGCC). Michele received his BSc degree in Physics in 2003, and his BSc, MSc and PhD degrees in Computer Science in 2004, 2006 and 2010 respectively, all of them from the University of Pisa, Italy. He was visiting researcher at Universidad de Malaga in 2007, at University of New York at Stony Brook in 2009, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Instituto de Telecomunicacoes in Aveiro, Portugal, from 2010 to 2012, and before being a researcher he worked as a software engineer and wireless technology specialist in private companies in the period from 2001 to 2006. In the context of the MANTIS project, he was Work Package leader for WP3 "Smart sensing and data acquisition technologies" and for WP8 "Dissemination of knowledge and exploitation". Michele is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Social Technologies and of the Transactions on Emerging Telecommunication Technologies since 2011, and in 2015 he has been appointed as Editor in Chief for the Journal of Green Engineering.

Dr. Erkki Jantunen is principal scientist at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd. Between 1978 and 1990 he worked in the shipbuilding industry in structural, vibration and hydrodynamic fields. Since 1990 he has been employed by VTT having various project responsibilities related to maintenance, condition monitoring and diagnosis of rotating machinery. He has been a member of the editorial board and acted as a reviewer of a number of scientific journals. He has been project manager of many research projects. He is the author and co-author of several books and more than 150 research papers in the field of condition monitoring, diagnosis and prognosis and e-maintenance. He has a position as a visiting professor at the University of Sunderland.

Dr. Gregor Papa is a Senior Researcher and a Head of Computer Systems Department at the Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia, and an Associate Professor at the Jozef Stefan International Postgraduate School, Slovenia. His research interests include meta-heuristic optimisation methods and hardware implementations of high-complexity algorithms. Gregor received the PhD degree in Electrical engineering from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 2002. His work is published in international journals and conference proceedings. He led and participated in several national and European projects. He is a member of the IEEE and ACM. Gregor is a member of the Editorial Board of the Automatika journal (Taylor & Francis) for the field "Applied Computational Intelligence". He is a Consultant at the Slovenian Strategic research and innovation partnership for Smart cities and communities. In the context of the MANTIS project, he was a Work Package leader of "HMI design and development".