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The maintenance department is an incubator for further developments in many companies and drivers for digital transformation. The basic essence of industry 4.0 is the optimisation of the information flows within and outside the company for accelerated adjustment of corporate organisations in the context of increasing competitive pressure. Due to the multitude of interfaces, information and data streams as well as their service characteristic, the maintenance department is ready to take the next step towards industry 4.0 and smart maintenance.
Despite endless publications and advertisements, the promise of smart maintenance is not technology but productivity. To achieve sustainable transformation, use cases need to be transformed into business cases. For that matter, lighthouse projects are not the key to success but transforming your departments, processes, data management, reporting and so on is. Another big misconception of industry 4.0: Transformational change does not happen with sensors or dashboards but with people. Therefore, companies which already invested in their people, culture and in lean six sigma have a head start. Nevertheless, it is no reason to rest. The journey to smart maintenance is long and no company can truly say that they achieved it already. In order to advance in industry 4.0 a digitisation roadmap is the best tool to show the big picture and at the same time link this vague vision to concrete measures. It is the only way to justify investment in infrastructure and guide your people into change.
But the first two questions on your way to smart maintenance are always the hardest:
1. What do I aim to achieve and how can industry 4.0 contribute to my goals?
What measure am I already pursuing to reach that goal and how do they further my aspirations?
The shift towards a decentralized electricity supply based on renewable energy sources requires constant communication between the entities in the electric grid. To satisfy this communication need, energy market players have to select suitable communication technologies for their use cases. Conventionally, these decisions are made on a case-by-case, non-systematic basis. This paper proposes a technology configurator, which is a systematic, solution neutral approach for energy market players to select the most suitable communication technology for their communication use case. The developed methodology consists of eight steps, in an interaction between a user and a system, leading to a prioritized list of technology recommendations for the given use case. In conclusion, the proposed approach presents energy market players with a systematic way to select the best suitable communication technology to connect their system to the smart grid.
Before starting with smart maintenance and machine learning, get things done right. Big data and analytics are a great way to get the most out of your assets, but they are not always the biggest lever and require a solid data foundation. As shown it is possible to get more out of the resources you have with relatively simple tools by applying the right method and bringing together the right people. To turn a computer system into a working tool and take full advantage of the capabilities of modern software solutions, specific steps must be taken, and both management and personnel need to be involved in shaping the future business processes. Only the right processes are able to generate a solid data foundation and enable the RCM method to work and improve asset lifecycle management and overall costs.
Return on Maintenance
(2018)
This presentation will show how the use of digital technology in the context of industry 4.0 can contribute to understanding maintenance as a value driver for manufacturing companies. In addition, principles that can help companies to maximize this "return on maintenance" for their maintenance organization and company will be presented.
Industrie 4.0 is hitting the market. The e.GO Life – an electric car for the city – is developed in under three years and only € 30M investment
RWTH Campus pairs research and industry partners to pursue innovative ideas and yield cutting-edge products and services to face next-level digitization.
Digital, agile businesses outperform traditional businesses because of lower latencies in the entire reaction chain
acatech Industrie 4.0 Maturity Index: Helping established companies to build the development path to Industrie 4.0
The Maturity Index is offered to the Plattform Industrie 4.0 for transferring the approach to industry and defining Industrie 4.0 performance levels.
An open infrastructure allows testing of new innovative possibilities for the manufacturing industry Industrie 4.0 is hitting the market. The e.GO Life - an electric car for the city - is developed in under three years and only € 50M investment.
Digital shadow enables fast adaption of products and production.
Digital, agile businesses outperform traditional businesses because of lower latencies in the entire reaction chain. The capability of using data and generate knowledge will different digital champions from losers.
The goal of Industrie 4.0 is a learning agile company;a mere technology driven approach is not sufficient.
A successful implementation of Industrie 4.0 in manufacturing companies requires a holistic transformation approach.
There are many reasons why the shift towards a learning, agile company fails.
For a successful implementation, the entire company structure has to be considered. A stepwise approach is required to build the agile enterprise - smart use of data is the critical success factor.
Company development within the structuring forcesis based on an Industrie 4.0 development path.
The four structuring forces illustrate the fundamental Industrie 4.0 development and are captured by key questions.
The Maturity Index is developed by renowned partners from industry and research Overview on strategic goals and derived projects.
It is crucial today that economies harness renewable energies and integrate them into the existing grid. Conventionally, energy has been generated based on forecasts of peak and low demands. Renewable energy can neither be produced on demand nor stored efficiently. Thus, the aim of this paper is to evaluate Deep Learning-based forecasts of energy consumption to align energy consumption with renewable energy production. Using a dataset from a use-case related to landfill leachate management, multiple prediction models were used to forecast energy demand.The results were validated based on the same dataset from the recycling industry. Shallow models showed the lowest Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE), significantly outperforming a persistence baseline for both, long-term (30 days), mid-term (7 days) and short-term (1 day) forecasts. A potential decrease of up to 23% in peak energy demand was found that could lead to a reduction of 3,091 kg in CO2-emissions per year. Our approach requires low finanacial investments for energy-management hardware, making it suitable for usage in Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs).
Digital networking via the company and as well, the overall supply chain, can only succeed if digital planning reflects reality as accurately as possible and if production control can react to deviations in real time. In essence, this leads to a development of process control towards process regulation. While longterm production and resource planning is usually mapped by Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, detailed planning, including short-term deviations and real-time data at the production level, is increasingly supported by Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) at the production control level. However, in order to bring the underlying system concepts into line with Industry 4.0 efforts in a standardized manner, mutual functional integration within the framework of interoperable production planning and control is of crucial importance. For this purpose, studies were carried out in particular into cause-effect relationships. Thus, the overarching research objective is a valid design model to increase the controllability of production planning and control systems (PPC) in the context of Industry 4.0.
The digitalization of manufacturing processes is expected to lead to a growing interconnection of production sites, as well as machines, tools and work pieces. In the course of this development, new use-cases arise which have challenging requirements from a communication technology point of view. In this paper we propose a communication network architecture for Industry 4.0 applications, which combines new 5G and non-cellular wireless network technologies with existing (wired) fieldbus technologies on the shop floor. This architecture includes the possibility to use private and public mobile networks together with local networking technologies to achieve a flexible setup that addresses many different industrial use cases. It is embedded into the Industrial Internet Reference Architecture and the RAMI4.0 reference architecture. The paper shows how the advancements introduced around the new 5G mobile technology can fulfill a wide range of industry requirements and thus enable new Industry 4.0 applications. Since 5G standardization is still ongoing, the proposed architecture is in a first step mainly focusing on new advanced features in the core network, but will be developed further later.
A large number of product-accompanying services in the machinery and plant engineering industry is based on the cross-company exchange of data and information. By providing services, additional sales potential on the manufacturer side as well as far-reaching product and process advantages for appliers can be reached. However, the necessary cross-company exchange of information is nowadays limited due to a lack of trust in the interacting partner and the applicable existing technologies, which results in significant losses in the terms of business potential. The uncovering of this potential now seems to be made possible by the use of the Blockchain technology. Through the key factors security, immutability, transparency and decentralisation, it serves as an enabler for cross-company communication and product-accompanying services. The technological implementation of a Blockchain can take on a broad spectrum of attributes, which can lead to decisive restrictions for the execution of services. This justifies the necessity for a qualified and context-related assessment of service-types-individual specifications and the resulting requirements on the system. Within the scope of this paper, different types of product-accompanying services are identified and analysed regarding their requirements for a Blockchain-based machinery and plant connection. This can serve as a basis for a qualified and goal-oriented configuration of the Blockchain.