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 …

At present we can find different complementary definitions of the term e-Maintenance. These
definitions apply to maintenance several principles and concepts such as collaboration, pro …

Digital manufacturing has been considered, over the last decade, as a highly promising set
of technologies for reducing product development times and cost as well as for addressing …

This paper describes a water pumping control system that is designed for production plants
and implemented in an experimental setup in a laboratory. These plants contain harsh …

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 …

Industrial wireless has great potential to improve the monitoring and control of various
processes and equipment in distributed automation systems because of advances in …

In the light of Industry 4.0 revolution, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) allows digitalizing
manufacturing processes and increasing the digital connectivity and automation in the smart …

A method includes receiving a message at a first wireless node. The first wireless node is
associated with a first wired network, and the first wired network is associated with a first …

Taking into account the scarcity of feasible fertilizing rate feedback from on-board sensors
and the limited computation power of controller mounted on the variable-rate granular …

Local positioning systems are able to track physical assets or people. Such systems can
help, but are not limited to, factory automation, asset management. However, it is not easy to …