How AI Affects the Future Predictive Maintenance: A Primer of Deep Learning

Abstract

We are in the midst of the industry 4.0 or the fourth industry revolution, a transformation revolving around intelligent sensors, machines, networks and business. Some of the newer concepts are overwhelming by their impact, and transformational technologies are just the tip of the iceberg. Artificial Intelligence, mainly Computational Intelligence will greatly affect future human’s life, economics, business, industries and even political systems. In this paper, we only discuss about the impact of AI to future predictive maintenance, which is an important parts of future advanced production systems. Specially we focus on Deep Learning (DL) technology, which is one branch of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) and try to answer some questions on what DL is and why we are interested in applying DL in predictive maintenance strategy today.