Transforming Business Management Practices for Increased Production through Deep Learning and Cloud Computing integration

This research is vital to meet the need for improved predictive maintenance in manufacturing, thus enabling predictive operations and minimizing expensive downtime. The aim is to assess and compare different machine learning models like Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), Support Vector Machines (SVM) and Decision Trees( DT ) with respect to predicting maintenance requirements using historical sales data, social media trends, and machinery sensor readings. The methodology included gathering a dataset of 3,200 records from the industry and then the pre-processing phase to compute the preprocessing operations like data cleaning, normalization and feature selection. The various models were then trained and tested, using 70% of the data for training to generalise the model, with the rest of the unseen test set consisting of the remaining 30%. The models were evaluated based on performance metrics (accuracy, precision, recall, F1 score and Dice Similarity Coefficient or DSC). Results showed the proposed ANN model as the most accurate and efficient prediction mechanism in comparison with precision, recall and F1 score for remaining useful life (RUL) predictions. The SVM model also worked well, with an accuracy of 95.45% but low rates of false positives and negatives. Although the DT model was informative, its performance (93.34% accuracy) was less robust than that of our RF ensemble trainer. This research demonstrates the use of these findings to be applied in real-time maintenance prediction by ANN. This research would help industries and other manufacturing sectors to reduce downtime, achieve optimal planned maintenance scheduling and improve production efficiency.