Abstract
A remarkable step forward in maintenance has been taken
through the adoption of e-maintenance techniques. The new
methodology enables the efficient use of maintenance
related information and services wherever and whenever
they are needed. New monitoring techniques together with
advanced use of mobile devices and RFID technology help
the maintenance engineer to assimilate many different
information sources, enhancing the quality and cost
effectiveness of maintenance decisions. With the help of
personal digital assistants (PDA) the maintenance
engineer is offered not only highly efficient and
practical monitoring and diagnosis tools, but also direct
assistance on how to carry out the maintenance tasks
effectively and reliably so that the possibility of
introducing faults during the execution of maintenance
tasks is also minimized. The introduction of maintenance
e-training provides additional tools to achieve this aim.
Key to the implementation of e-maintenance is the
combined use of web services and interoperability
standards, enabling data and intelligent processes
service integration (monitoring, diagnosis, prognosis) in
a distributed manner, with smart embedded services. Such
devices, services and data integration duly takes into
account local or remote information, as well as input
from intelligent predictive planning systems, in order to
optimize maintenance costs, operational reliability and
availability. The decisions made by the engineer in the
field are therefore well-informed, based upon up-to-date
information and take a holistic view of the overall
maintenance strategy. The paper summarizes the results of
a highly successful EU IP project DYNAMITE (Dynamic
Decisions in Maintenance), where a flexible e-maintenance
framework was developed and demonstrated at different end
users and application scenarios.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the Euromaintenance Conference, EFNMS 2010 |
Place of Publication | Milano |
Publisher | Associazione Italiana Manutenzione (A.I. MAN) |
Pages | 250-253 |
Publication status | Published - 2010 |
MoE publication type | B3 Non-refereed article in conference proceedings |
Event | Euromaintenance 2010 Conference, EFNMS 2010 - Verona, Italy Duration: 12 May 2010 → 14 May 2010 |
Conference
Conference | Euromaintenance 2010 Conference, EFNMS 2010 |
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Abbreviated title | EFNMS 2010 |
Country/Territory | Italy |
City | Verona |
Period | 12/05/10 → 14/05/10 |
Keywords
- maintenance strategy
- maintenance economy
- condition based maintenance (CBM)
- e-maintenance
- web services
- personal digital assistant (PDA)
- monitoring
- diagnosis
- prognosis