Link: https://blog.joshsoftware.com/2018/04/27/predicting-manufacturing-downtime-to-ensure-business-success/

For the past few months, I have been observing the growth of the manufacturing sector in India, and how the contribution of the manufacturing sector to the India’s gross domestic product (GDP) will increase from the current levels of ~16% to 25% by 2022.

One of the major concerns and challenges of having a seamless manufacturing output is to prevent & avoid unfavorable machine performance. With the assumption that machines will degrade over time, manufacturing companies, prior to advanced technology intervention, aimed at focusing on preventive and reactive maintenance of the health of their machines, but the use of deep learning technology is leading towards a new age term method to safeguarding the health of machines, coined in the industry as predictive maintenance.