An agent-based platform for service integration in e-maintenance

The evolution of industrial systems makes the maintenance tasks more and more important. Encouraged by the requirements of industrial companies, we provide a solution to the problems of both industrial maintenance and enterprise integration by integrating industrial systems and field devices. With agent, Web and other technologies, e-maintenance and e-enterprise are becoming possible. E-maintenance is considered as one example of e-enterprise. A dynamic system model is constructed by extracting sources and targets, goals, and maintenance processes in terms of information flow between information nodes. An agent-based platform architecture seeks to integrate industrial systems in terms of e-maintenance, e.g., data acquisition systems, expert systems and business management systems.

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