Abstract
E-maintenance and the use of mobile devices offer the
flexibility to initiate maintenance - related
applications at flexible locations while networked in
unstructured environments. They are becoming a key
enabling factor in achieving ubiquitous data and services
availability, by retrieving information from
heterogeneous data sources. Personal Digital Assistant
(PDA) devices play a key role in bringing mobile
maintenance management closer to daily practice on the
shop floor.
The use of PDAs enable maintenance personnel to directly
gain access to information stored at different locations,
being at the back office, on the monitored machinery or
even outside of the plant. PDAs are becoming a ubiquitous
information and services mediator, bringing the right
maintenance-related information and e-applications to the
right place at the right time to anyone authorized to
gain access. Mobile users again can consult and act upon
information, such as data relevant to monitored
machinery, e.g. condition monitoring readings, current
machine state, maintenance actions history and
scheduling, spare parts availability, maintenance
activities instructions. In this way mobile devices and
services constitute a mobile assistant, enabling
information and applications accessibility by mobile
personnel, greatly expanding the available toolset with
enhanced data and knowledge processing capabilities
| 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 | 9 |
| Pages | 227-246 |
| 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 |