Abstract
This chapter describes the state of the art in
maintenance and its future trends. The key areas which
have influenced maintenance in the last forty years are
management of people and assets, and technological
capability. These areas are important because they aim to
make the best advantage of expensive resources, whether
that advantage is profit, or to provide the best possible
service with limited resource. The chapter first sets out
the current range of maintenance in industrial practice.
It is recognized that many businesses do not undertake
the full extent of the work reported here: but it is our
purpose to survey the state of the art. The chapter then
continues to survey the influences of nascent
technologies and ideas, before making some predictions
about the future. Indeed, some of the most advanced
condition based maintenance effectively aims to predict
the future, but here we do not offer a crystal ball
calibrated to international standards: we will constrain
ourselves to informed, independent opinion.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | E-maintenance |
| Editors | Kenneth Holmberg, Adam Adgar, Aitor Arnaiz, Erkki Jantunen, Julien Mascolo, Samir Mekid |
| Place of Publication | London |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Chapter | 2 |
| Pages | 5-37 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-84996-205-6 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-84996-204-9 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2010 |
| MoE publication type | D2 Article in professional manuals or guides or professional information systems or text book material |
