Web services system for distributed technology upgrade within an e-maintenance framework

Abstract

Nowadays, industrial maintenance is one of the most important tasks in the industry because its cost is too high, usually due to poor maintenance decisions. Traditionally, corrective maintenance and preventive maintenance are performed, but both of them, the excessive and the lacking maintenance can be harmful. In the last years, CBM (Condition Based Maintenance) technology or predictive maintenance has appeared in order to establish whether the system will fail during some future period and then take actions to avoid consequences. This paper shows the e-maintenance platform nicknamed DYNAWeb which is part of DYNAMITE project. DYNAWeb develops a CBM system based on OSA-CBM standard over MIMOSA comprising broad of capabilities like sensing and data acquisition, signal processing, health assessment, prognosis... This platform ensures the integration of all the components (software and hardware) using different technologies (sensor technologies, wireless communication technology) and providing them with agents and (Semantic) Web Services to allow the integration and the reuse among different applications. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.