Abstract
Nowadays companies, whose mission is to provide
maintenance services to support production equipment
built by different product vendors, progressively tend to
focus on services based on Condition Based Maintenance
(CBM). This can be considered a consequence of the
availability of ICT components as new remote hardware
devices (i.e. smart sensors) and software tools (i.e. for
diagnostics and prognostics): these components may play a
fundamental role for the development of CBM in the set of
services provided by maintenance service providers. In
this context, it is interesting to evaluate new technical
solutions, such as CBM based solutions, their technical
advantages and subsequent benefits, identifying CBM as a
relevant leverage to improve a maintenance service
contract. This paper focuses on the supporting modelling
tools that can be of help in order to assess the
technical and economic benefits that a CBM service can
provide. Thanks to such supporting tools, it is possible
to model the CBM adoption in a maintenance service
contract, to optimize it and to estimate the resulting
benefits, besides the costs. In a few words, it is
possible to set up a CBM service and evaluate its impact
for the client company that decides to use it. The paper
presents the literature background, in order to
demonstrate the usefulness of CBM in the scope of
maintenance service provision. Afterwards, modelling
tools, which can assist in evaluating the benefits of
maintenance services, are discussed: a major focus is on
simulation tools, having specific concern to the system
dynamics as modelling technique. In this paper a tool is
proposed; this tool provides empirical evidence of the
use of systems dynamics as a technique promising for
supporting the evaluation of technical and economic
benefits of CBM in a service contract.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 11th International Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management Conference & The Annual European Safety and Reliability Conference |
| Subtitle of host publication | PSAM11 ESREL 2012 |
| Publisher | Curran Associates Inc. |
| Volume | 1 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-62276-436-5 |
| Publication status | Published - 2012 |
| MoE publication type | A4 Article in a conference publication |
| Event | 11th International Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management Conference and The Annual European Safety and Reliability Conference, PSAM11 & ESREL 2012 - Helsinki, Finland Duration: 25 Jun 2012 → 29 Jun 2012 |
Conference
| Conference | 11th International Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management Conference and The Annual European Safety and Reliability Conference, PSAM11 & ESREL 2012 |
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| Country/Territory | Finland |
| City | Helsinki |
| Period | 25/06/12 → 29/06/12 |
Keywords
- maintenance services
- CBM policy
- reliability modelling
- system dynamics simulation