Big data and stream processing platforms for Industry 4.0 requirements mapping for a predictive maintenance use case

Industry 4.0 is considered to be the fourth industrial revolution introducing a new paradigm of digital, autonomous, and decentralized control for manufacturing systems. Two key objectives for Industry 4.0 applications are to guarantee maximum uptime throughout the production chain and to increase productivity while reducing production cost. As the data-driven economy evolves, enterprises have started to utilize big data techniques to achieve these objectives. Big data and IoT technologies are playing a pivotal role in building data-oriented applications such as predictive maintenance. In this paper, we use a systematic methodology to review the strengths and weaknesses of existing open-source technologies for big data and stream processing to establish their usage for Industry 4.0 use cases. We identified a set of requirements for the two selected use cases of predictive maintenance in the areas of rail transportation and wind energy. We conducted a breadth-first mapping of predictive maintenance use-case requirements to the capabilities of big data streaming technologies focusing on open-source tools. Based on our research, we propose some optimal combinations of open-source big data technologies for our selected use cases.