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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?
Today, however, agility is seen more than ever as a critical success factor for companies. In times of an increasing degree of digital interconnection and minimum viable products, a mentality is entering the industrial service sector that has so far only been exemplified by Internet companies (e.g. Google): New products and especially digital services are developed in highly iterative processes. To this end, customers are involved in early test phases of development and provide feedback on individual functional modules, which – in contrast to the previous approach – are only gradually assembled into a market-ready “100 percent version”. But especially with the development of new digital services, companies must ensure more than ever that both the existing analog service business and the design of new digital services are geared to effectiveness and efficiency in order to meet the growing demands of customers and competitors.
To achieve this, companies must not only be familiar with the products currently on the market, but also master the entire product history, which in some cases goes back more than 30 years and varies greatly from one industry to another.
Reliability-centered maintenance for production assets is a well-established concept for the most effective and efficient disposition of maintenance resources. Unfortunately, the approach takes a lot of effort and relies heavily on the knowledge of individuals. Reliability data in Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) is scarce and almost never used well. An automated risk assessment system would have the potential to contribute to the dissemination and effective use of risk information and analysis. The individuality of production setting, however, prevents current systems from being practically relevant for most industries. The presented approach combines ontologies to store and link knowledge, an information logistics model displaying the various information streams, and the Internet of production to take the different user systems and infrastructure layers into account. The provided model of a reference digital shadow for risk information and a detailed information logistics model will help software companies to improve reliability software, standardize and enable assets owners to establish a customized digital shadow for their production networks. [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-57993-7_2]