3 The MANTIS Reference Architecture

The purpose of this chapter is to describe the MANTIS reference architecture. The generic focus here is on an architecture that enables service-based business models and improved asset availability at lower costs through continuous process and equipment monitoring, aided by big data analysis. This architecture takes into account needs of various industries in the forefront of service-based business and operations models. It also takes into account less mature industrial domains, where improvements in maintenance can be only achieved gradually and consistently. The higher level requirements for the whole project are described by [The MANTIS Consortium, 2018] and further tuned for the architecture in [Jantunen et al., 2016].