Mainformatics is a brand-new terminology representing the fusion discipline of maintenance technology cooperated by information science, informatics.
The maintenance needs were born with the beginning of industrialization, but its significance seems underestimated in reality. The conventional maintenance technologies have been placed in either side of a completely reactive manner (Corrective Maintenance) or a completely proactive manner (Preventive Maintenance). The better way should be, however, the switch-over of the conventional technologies to condition-based manner (Predictive Maintenance) to optimize system’s performance and safety, particularly in case of safety-critical systems.