Roadmap to Self-Serving Assets in Civil Aerospace

摘要

The “intelligent object” paradigm first occurred in holonic manufacturing, where objects managed theirproduction. The “self-serving asset” is a further evolution of those early concepts from manufacturing tousage phase. The usage phase bestows a different set of requirements including maximisation of theasset’s life-in-service and benefits to the asset’s stakeholders. Addressing these requirements with a selfservingasset may lead to more streamlined decision-making in service operations, reduce erroneous orsuboptimal decisions, and enable condition-based maintenance. We present a future direction for servicesystems by considering self-serving assets in the aerospace industry, and outline a technology roadmap forthe transformation.