“…IIoT has demonstrated the enabling of efficient predictive maintenance (Aheleroff et al 2020), and thus determines the current and future health of machinery to assist the decision-making processes that optimise the maintenance and inspection tasks, crew management, and spare parts stocks, among other aspects. However, incomplete values, which are derived from device failure, network collapse, and human error (Noor et al 2014;Balakrishnan and Sangaiah 2018;Izonin et al 2019), may be recorded due to the utilisation of IIoT, and thus, if not addressed, data analysis may be unreliable and inaccurate, promoting bias in data-driven decisionmaking models. To that end, the implementation of data imputation is indispensable, which is a crucial step in sensor data preparation to deal with missing values.…”