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Artificial Intelligence for Predictive Maintenance of Mission-Critical Engineered Systems: A Systematic Review of Methods, Frameworks, and Future Directions
Subject area: Science,Engineering and Technology · Area of research: Industry 4.0
DOI: 10.64388/IREV10I4-1723999
Abstract
Asset management in safety-critical industries is moving away from calendar-driven preventive schedules and toward autonomous, data-driven decision-making enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). This work reports a PRISMA-compliant systematic review of the predictive maintenance (PdM) literature published between January 2018 and June 2026, covering domains such as aerospace, energy, and advanced manufacturing where component degradation must be tracked with high reliability. A structured search across four bibliographic databases (IEEE Xplore, Scopus, Web of Science, and the ACM Digital Library) produced an initial pool of 2,847 candidate records; after multi-stage screening, 127 peer-reviewed studies were retained for detailed synthesis. The retained literature is organized into six methodological threads: purely data-driven learning, physics-informed machine learning, digital-twin architectures, causal and explainable AI, uncertainty quantification, and human-AI collaboration. Although deep architectures achieve strong benchmark accuracy, the synthesis surfaces recurring shortcomings around out-of-distribution robustness, epistemic uncertainty handling, and model opacity. Eight recurring research gaps are catalogued, and a forward-looking agenda is proposed, culminating in a conceptual unifying framework, referred to here as NEXUS-AI, that combines physical priors, neuro-symbolic reasoning, and human oversight to support verifiable reliability in high-consequence settings.
Keywords
predictive maintenance; prognostics and health management; remaining useful life; physics-informed machine learning; digital twin; explainable AI; causal inference; uncertainty quantification; systematic review
How to cite this paper
@article{1723999,
author = {Atharv Atmaram Jadhav, Tushar D. Kolhe, Pradip M. Bhukan, Sakshi D. Dhembare, Bhagyashri R. Jadhav},
title = {Artificial Intelligence for Predictive Maintenance of Mission-Critical Engineered Systems: A Systematic Review of Methods, Frameworks, and Future Directions},
journal = {Iconic Research And Engineering Journals},
year = {2026},
volume = {10},
number = {4},
pages = {3011-3025},
issn = {2456-8880},
url = {https://www.irejournals.com/formatedpaper/1723999.pdf},
abstract = {Asset management in safety-critical industries is moving away from calendar-driven preventive schedules and toward autonomous, data-driven decision-making enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). This work reports a PRISMA-compliant systematic review of the predictive maintenance (PdM) literature published between January 2018 and June 2026, covering domains such as aerospace, energy, and advanced manufacturing where component degradation must be tracked with high reliability. A structured search across four bibliographic databases (IEEE Xplore, Scopus, Web of Science, and the ACM Digital Library) produced an initial pool of 2,847 candidate records; after multi-stage screening, 127 peer-reviewed studies were retained for detailed synthesis. The retained literature is organized into six methodological threads: purely data-driven learning, physics-informed machine learning, digital-twin architectures, causal and explainable AI, uncertainty quantification, and human-AI collaboration. Although deep architectures achieve strong benchmark accuracy, the synthesis surfaces recurring shortcomings around out-of-distribution robustness, epistemic uncertainty handling, and model opacity. Eight recurring research gaps are catalogued, and a forward-looking agenda is proposed, culminating in a conceptual unifying framework, referred to here as NEXUS-AI, that combines physical priors, neuro-symbolic reasoning, and human oversight to support verifiable reliability in high-consequence settings.},
keywords = {predictive maintenance; prognostics and health management; remaining useful life; physics-informed machine learning; digital twin; explainable AI; causal inference; uncertainty quantification; systematic review},
month = {October},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.64388/IREV10I4-1723999}
}