Proposed Industry 4.0 Maintenance framework for critical and demanding infrastructures and processes

This paper presents a novel framework for Industrial maintenance. The proposition covers the three major parts of a holistic Industry 4.0 process: Digital twins representation, ubiquity, and intelligent decision support. The authors have implemented a test-bed maintenance system for the maintenance needs of the oil refinery industry. Finally, they present their implementation system capabilities of their proof of concept following their proposed framework.