This book presents the outcome of the European project "SERENA",
involving fourteen partners as international academics, technological
companies, and industrial factories, addressing the design and
development of a plug-n-play end-to-end cloud architecture, and enabling
predictive maintenance of industrial equipment to be easily exploitable
by small and medium manufacturing companies with a very limited data
analytics experience. Perspectives and new opportunities to address open
issues on predictive maintenance conclude the book with some interesting
suggestions of future research directions to continue the growth of the
manufacturing intelligence.