“…As mentioned earlier, within the recent literature (beyond the time horizons of the Bousdekis et al 2015), the same trend on selecting various combinations of statistics and machine learning methods for predictive maintenance is apparent. As an example, one may refer to the following selected studies: for developing a periodic preventive maintenance model (Franciosi, Lambiase, and Miranda 2017), enhancing preventive maintenance through integrating probabilistic and predictive models (Ruschel, Santos, and Loures 2017), establishing a generic simulation-based predictive maintenance (Zarte, Wunder, and Pechmann 2017), developing cloud-based predictive maintenance framework (Schmidt, Wang, and Galar 2017), and introducing a smart maintenance decision support using corporate big data analytics (Bumblauskas et al 2017) as well as applying various combinations of statistical datamining and supervised machine learning for condition-based maintenance examined in (Accorsi et al 2017). Specifically, dynamic-based prognostic models are used for predicting dependability in (Aizpurua et al 2017), Bayesian modelling is employed for optimisation of maintenance strategies in (Belyi et al 2017), and application of various machine learning methods for self-parameterising process monitoring and selfadjusting process strategies for series production has been investigated in (Denkena et al 2017).…”