A Review on the Advanced Maintenance Approach for Achieving the Zero-Defect Manufacturing System

Recently, a revolutionary change is taking place in manufacturing and production systems thanks to the development of various advanced technologies such as IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things), CPPS (Cyber-Physical Production System), digital twins, big data analytics, AI (Artificial Intelligence), and so on. One of the change is that manufacturing and production systems are now trying to transform into the ZDM (Zero-Defect Manufacturing) system. For a manufacturing company, quality takes precedence over any other competitive factors, so the implementation of a ZDM system is very important. For the implementation of ZDM, many fundamental technologies are required. Among them, the advanced maintenance approach for the facilities/equipment of the manufacturing and production system is much more important because it could support the zero-defect and high-efficiency operation of manufacturing and production systems. The advanced maintenance approach, which is often called by various terms such as predictive maintenance, condition-based maintenance plus (CBM+), and PHM (Prognostics and Health Management), requires various interdisciplinary knowledge and systematic integration. In this study, we will review previous works mainly focusing on advanced maintenance subject among ZDM research works, and briefly discuss the challenging issues for applying PHM technologies to the ZDM.