Abstract:
The aim of this article is to acquaint the reader with problematics of industrial maintenance. The first part of the
article deals with the historical overview of maintenance itself. There are different definitions and approaches to
maintenance, some of them are presented with the most used maintenance types of breakdown maintenance, preventive
maintenance, predictive maintenance, RCM, and TPM. The paper proposes opportunities for “new” type of
maintenance connected with Industry 4.0, namely Predictive Maintenance
