Scenarios for development and demonstration of dynamic maintenance strategies
Résumé
The maintenance of machinery and assets is a huge cost to European industry. Increasing requirements in terms of reliability, availability and quality and safety of production, in addition to the extension of normal operational ranges pose big challenges to machinery maintenance activities. The majority of corrective and preventive schemes adopted by companies are based on local information and in many cases prove to be costly and inadequate. However, today is possible to take advantage of radically new technologies (i.e internet, mobile devices, micro technologies) to re-design maintenance strategies, taking full advantage of the existing information at machinery facilities, and introducing smart and cheap hardware devices (sensors, PDAs) hence making room for cost-effective dynamic e-maintenance systems. This paper gives a short overview of the analysis of existing use cases for development and demonstration of new technologies, that are being developed as part of European Integrated Project DYNAMITE 017498 (Dynamic Decisions in Maintenance) where new technologies will facilitate the implementation of cost-effective maintenance solutions, with a special focus on condition-based strategies.