The importance of the maintenance1 function has increased because of its role in keeping
and improving system availability and safety, as well as product quality. To support this role …

The changing nature of manufacturing, in recent years, is evident in industry's willingness to
adopt network-connected intelligent machines in their factory development plans. A number …

E-maintenance is an emerging concept generally defined as 'a maintenance management
concept whereby assets are monitored and managed over the Internet'. Nevertheless a lot of …

Maintenance management of an industrial plant has been always a complex activity.
Nowadays Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMSs) help to organize …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to develop a multifaceted perspective on e-
maintenance research and practice over 12 years from 2002 to 2013. Design/methodology …

Predicting future maintenance needs of equipment can be addressed in a variety of ways.
Methods based on machine learning approaches provide an interesting platform for mining …

Within the era of e-manufacturing and e-business, e-maintenance provides the opportunity
for a new maintenance generation. E-maintenance integrates existing telemaintenance …

When closed loop product lifecycle management was first introduced, much effort focused
on establishing ways to communicate data between different lifecycle phase activities. The …

Abstract Development and acquisition of technological capabilities has become one of the
major strategic requirements to excel commercially today in various business sectors. Front …

There is a clear growth of interests today on the development and use of e-maintenance
concepts for industrial facilities. This is particularly seen in the offshore oil and gas (O&G) …