Information and communication technologies within e-maintenance
Résumé
This chapter describes the state of the art in Information and communication technologies (ICT) related to maintenance and its future trends. Several topics ap-ply, from pure technological advances in acquisition, communication and storage of information, to the identification of advanced information standards for systems interoperability, such as MIMOSA and OSA-CBM. The chapter introduces first the concept of e-Maintenance and follows with a broad review of the state-of the art on some ICT technologies is provided that serves as an introduction to DYNAMITE approach is made. This approach is also described, introducing DynaWeb concept, the link between DYNAMITE and the e-Maintenance general concept, and outlining a global framework between differ-ent systems that forms a ‘plug & play‘ basic mode of operation. Last, the chapter serves as an introduction to forthcoming chapters dealing with specific technolo-gies that have been converted into ‘capabilities', such as wireless communications, intelligent web services and smart PDAs.