Supporting total productive maintenance by mobile devices

摘要

In the last decade, the potential of mobile business for a great variety of areas within production and operations management, for instance supply chain management, has been widely discussed. However, the integration of mobile business and maintenance has been neglected so far. In the course of the evolved mobile business era, the question how maintenance can be supported by mobile devices in order to generate competitive advantages is an important issue since maintenance plays a strategic role in manufacturing companies. This paper deals with the question of how maintenance - in particular the improvement of maintenance by total productive maintenance - can be supported by mobile business. The five pillars of total productive maintenance are used as a basis for the application areas of mobile devices. The paper discusses the potential of mobile devices in the different pillars. The main conclusion is that mobile devices can be used to improve total productive maintenance in different ways in order to increase the overall equipment effectiveness. Additionally, the functionality of a maintenance hub is briefly shown.