Design of supervision solutions for industrial equipment: Schemes, tools and guidelines for the user

Abstract

The advent of Industry 5.0 envisages production systems that are more resilient, embrace human–machine collaboration and promote sustainability driven by technological research. The development of supervision solutions for industrial equipment fills in this picture as a basis for more proactive Condition-Based Maintenance strategies. The goal of this paper is to provide a self-contained set of guidelines to design such supervision solutions. With respect to existing literature on the topic, we provide a design process with a strong focus on experimental data collection and failure reproduction activities. Moreover, the connections between the steps of the proposed process are clearly highlighted to guide the user. First, the paper provides a set of tools to select the critical items and the methodological approaches for supervision. Then, these tools are used and referenced in the proposed design process. Finally, the proposed process is exemplified on two industrial case studies to show its effectiveness. Considerations, hints, and a user guidelines are given at the end of most sections.