A smart web-based maintenance system for a smart manufacturing environment

Maintenance is a practice in manufacturing that had never been available to remote control and management until the introduction of web-connected portable smart devices. In the last years several studies and applied research have been conducted for achieving this objective in an efficient way and with the aim to enhance the business activity related to. Remote access and role-specific data distribution can become the next level upgrade of maintenance, diagnostic and flow control management using smart sensors, actuators, and smart consumer devices (smartphone, tablet, etc.). In this project, a real case is presented, an Italian company, the end user of the project, tried to achieve this goal creating with the all consortium, a new web-services based server application in order to have remote access to the data stream, which permits to have the machine status available on the web, very strict time responses, a better user profiling and innovative control system based on smart devices monitoring real time machine data and sending notification sounds when needed. The result is a platform connecting, using the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm, industrial machineries with a smart device android app and with a web application running on a normal browser.