Remote maintenance support with the aid of cyber-physical systems and cloud technology

This article discusses how a business model based on traditional maintenance can evolve to generate servitization strategies, with the help of remote maintenance support. The application of cyber-physical systems and cloud technologies play a key role for such maintenance purposes. In fact, the utilization of large quantities of data collected on machines and their processing by means of advanced techniques such as machine learning enable novel techniques for condition-based maintenance. New sensor solutions that could be used in maintenance and interaction with cyber-physical systems are also presented. Here, data models are an important part of these techniques because of the huge amounts of data that are produced and should be processed. These data models have been used in a real case, supported by the Machinery Information Management Open System Alliance Open System Architecture for Condition-Based Maintenance standard architecture, for streamlining the modeling of collected data. In this context, an industrial use case is described, to enlighten the application of the presented concepts in a working pilot. Finally, current and future directions for application of cyber-physical systems and cloud technologies to maintenance are discussed.

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Context-Aware IoT-Enabled Cyber-Physical Systems: A Vision and Future Directions

Scalable Computing and Communications - Handbook of Integration of Cloud Computing, Cyber Physical Systems and Internet of Things ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-43795-4_1 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-16

Author(s):

Karan Mitra ◽

Rajiv Ranjan ◽

Christer Åhlund

Keyword(s):

Cyber Physical Systems ◽

Context Aware ◽

Future Directions ◽

Physical Systems

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Identifying Promising Application Areas for Cyber-Physical and Complex Event Processing in Logistics Practice

Logistics ◽

10.3390/logistics2040023 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2 (4) ◽

pp. 23

Author(s):

Cyril Alias ◽

Frank Alarcón Olalla ◽

Hauke Iwersen ◽

Julius Ollesch ◽

Bernd Noche

Keyword(s):

Cyber Physical Systems ◽

Complex Event Processing ◽

Event Processing ◽

Use Case ◽

Logistics Industry ◽

Physical Systems ◽

Case Examples ◽

Promising Application ◽

Cost Efficient ◽

Huge Challenge

In the course of the ongoing era of digitization, cyber-physical systems and complex event processing belong to the most discussed technologies nowadays. The huge challenge that digitization is forming to the transportation and logistics sector is largely accepted by the responsible organizations. Despite initial steps being taken towards digitized value-creation, many professionals wonder about how to realize the ideas and stumble with the precise steps to be taken. With the vision of smart logistics in mind and cost-efficient technologies available, they require a systematic methodology to exploit the potentials accompanying digitization. With the help of an effective and targeted workshop procedure, potentially appropriate application areas with promising benefit potentials can be identified effectively. Such a workshop procedure needs to be a stepwise approach in order to carefully consider all the relevant aspects and to allow for organizational acceptance to grow. In three real-world use case examples from different areas of the transportation and logistics industry, promising applications of cyber-physical systems and complex event processing are identified and pertaining event patterns of critical situations developed in order to make realization easier at a later stage. Each use case example exhibits a frequently occurring problem that can be effectively addressed by using the above-mentioned technology.

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