Integrating maintenance within the production process through a flexible E-maintenance platform

摘要

The paper aims at discussing the design choices of a flexible E-maintenance platform. The platform is built based on the combined use of web services and statistical analysis, in order to obtain a tool-box featuring high usability for an agile integration of maintenance activities within the production process. The flexibility is demonstrated through the implementation of Condition Based Maintenance in a manufacturing case study. This provides a proof of the potential improvement that can be achieved for the integration of maintenance management within production management, leveraging on a strategy of condition based operations of the shop floor.