Support the prescriptive maintenance of complex systems with Decision Intelligence

Maintenance now plays a central role in the management of complex machines and systems. In modern plants, it is in fact increasingly important to guarantee pre-established levels of productivity and availability also in consideration of the fact that these are often parameters included in the contractual terms. In addition to these aspects, it is also essential to be able to control the overall management costs of the plants since, in an enlarged economic scenario, competition is fierce and globalization leads to a direct confrontation with Emerging Countries that have labour at lower costs. The issues related to effectiveness, measurable in terms of availability and productivity, and efficiency, which instead can be assessed on the basis of specific management costs, are increasingly interconnected and their control opens the scenario to multiple trade-offs that, especially in the case of complex systems in which the operating variables are many, it is not possible to fully govern with traditional methods. Industry 4.0 and Artificial Intelligence are making a truly significant contribution to the evolution of maintenance, which has gone from a purely reactive operation to a preventive, predictive and finally prescriptive operation.