151. A microservice architecture for predictive analytics in manufacturing
- Author
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Kosmas Alexopoulos, Salvatore Andolina, P. Greco, Enrico Macii, Nikolaos Nikolakis, Tania Cerquitelli, Simone Panicucci, Angelo Marguglio, and G. Veneziano
- Subjects
0209 industrial biotechnology ,Computer science ,business.industry ,Interoperability ,02 engineering and technology ,Microservices ,Predictive analytics ,Modular design ,Virtualization ,computer.software_genre ,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering ,Predictive maintenance ,020303 mechanical engineering & transports ,020901 industrial engineering & automation ,0203 mechanical engineering ,Artificial Intelligence ,Analytics ,Scalability ,business ,Software engineering ,computer - Abstract
This paper discusses on the design, development and deployment of a flexible and modular platform supporting smart predictive maintenance operations, enabled by microservices architecture and virtualization technologies. Virtualization allows the platform to be deployed in a multi-tenant environment, while facilitating resource isolation and independency from specific technologies or services. Moreover, the proposed platform supports scalable data storage supporting an effective and efficient management of large volume of Industry 4.0 data. Methodologies of data-driven predictive maintenance are provided to the user as-a-service, facilitating offline training and online execution of pre-trained analytics models, while the connection of the raw data to contextual information support their understanding and interpretation, while guaranteeing interoperability across heterogeneous systems. A use case related to the predictive maintenance operations of a robotic manipulator is examined to demonstrate the effectiveness and the efficiency of the proposed platform.
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- 2020