Miller Magazine Issue: 127 July 2020

50 MILLER / JULY 2020 Total Productive Maintenance and its Predictive Maintenance tool Maintenance is defined in many ways de- pending upon which parameter one is fo- cused, but in general, it can be defined as “all kinds of activities such as repair, replacement, inspections and similar to maintain the func- tionality of equipment and buildings through- out their expected lives”. 1 These activities can be carried out using dif- ferent methods which differ according either the conditions faced or the strategy selected. If we classify them, we can see that although “Industry 4.0 promotes Smart Predictive Maintenance (SPdM) and smart manufacturing as machines are connected as a collaborative community in smart factories generating a great potential for Predictive Maintenance (PdM). Transition to Industry 4.0 is a dynamic process and continues. PdM plays a fundamental role in that transition, benefitting also from the developments of that transition in terms of data collection and data analysis.” On mutual interaction between Industry 4.0 and Predictive Maintenance Dr. Ahmet Yalçınkaya Management Coordinator Molino Mechanical Industry and Trade Inc.