Prognostics and health management (PHM) is a field of research and application which aims at making use of past, present and future information on the environmental, operational and usage conditions of an equipment in order to detect its degradation, diagnose its faults, predict and proactively manage its failures. The present paper reviews the state of knowledge on the methods for PHM, placing...

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is changing the way the world designs, connects and optimizes machines. The advent of the IIoT brings together the things of the industrial sector (countless pieces of industrial equipment, machines, production facilities, plants), with a network (high speed routers, switches and gateways), and the cloud, which hosts the software and analytics for making...

This paper refers to the comparative study of the equipment used for cooking in commercial of kitchens restaurants that use the system of traditional cooking and those ones which use the system called smart cooking (combination oven). The study investigates the usability issues concerning to the two systems, analyzing comparatively the aspects related to anthropometry, dimensional variables, th...

Against the backdrop of digital innovation, new opportunities to empower technical customer service (TCS) for industrial equipment are emerging. Despite the currently available technological capabilities, organizations struggle to harness the potential of industrial equipment becoming cyber-physical. Cyber-physical capabilities of industrial equipment equipped with sensors, connectivity, and ac...