Volume 8, Issue 5 e70082
SPECIAL ISSUE ARTICLE

Artificial Intelligence of Things Induced Predictive Maintenance of Computer Numerical Control Machine

Peng Xia

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Peng Xia

School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Liaoyuan Vocational Technical College, Jilin, People's Republic of China

Correspondence: Peng Xia ([email protected])

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Fengrong Hu

Fengrong Hu

School of Aerospace Engineering, Jilin Institute of Chemical Technology, Jilin, People's Republic of China

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First published: 15 July 2025

ABSTRACT

Automatically predictive maintenance (PdM) is critical for minimizing unplanned downtime and reducing operational costs in modern computer numerical control machines. However, traditional cloud-based PdM suffers from high latency, privacy concerns, and heavy infrastructure demands; meanwhile, traditional edge intelligence-based approaches are restricted by the power of edge devices. In order to tackle these issues, this paper proposes a transferable TinyML-based Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) for PdM. First, self-powered piezoelectric sensors in the AIoT are installed for monitoring device vibration. Second, FFT-based feature extraction and quantized TinyML models are deployed on the edge device for real-time, low-power inference on microcontrollers. Third, few-shot transfer learning is incorporated. Experiments on four fault classes—Normal, Misalignment, Bearing Fault, and Idle—demonstrate that our method achieves 94.8% accuracy, 95.1% precision, 94.6% recall, and 94.7% F1-score, outperforming six baselines (LSTM, RF, SVM, KNN, LR, and DT). Ablation studies confirm the critical roles of transfer learning, quantization, self-powered sensing, and FFT features. The proposed framework delivers sub-200 ms inference latency at < 1 mW, making it ideal for always-on AIoT PdM in CNC production.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

Data Availability Statement

The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

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