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Industry 4.0 and Smart Maintenance represent a great opportunity to make manufacturing and maintenance more effective, safer, and reliable. However, they also represent massive change and corresponding challenges for industrial companies, as many different options and starting points have to be weighed and the individual right paths for achieving Smart Maintenance need to be identified. In our paper, we describe our approach to evaluating maintenance organizations in a case study for the oil and gas industry, developing a shared vision for the future, and deriving economical and effective measures. We will demonstrate our approach, by showcasing a specific example from the oil and gas industry, where a need for action on HSE-relevant critical flanges in the company's piping systems was identified. We describe the steps, that were taken to identify the need for action, the specifications of the project and the criticality analysis of the piping system. This resulted in the derivation of a digitalization measure for critical flanges, which was first commercially analyzed and then the flanges were equipped with a continuous monitoring solution. Finally, a conclusion is drawn on the performed procedure and the achieved improvements.
Subscription business models provide an important component for monetizing the potential of Industrie 4.0. Subscription business is based on a long-term and participative business relationship between customer and provider. However, only digitalization offers the necessary framework conditions to realize the characteristic recurring and performance-based billing, and to ensure the necessary transparency about the usage phase of products as well as continuous performance improvements in the customer process. Against this background, companies must not only recognize the much-cited potential that lies in the total dedication to the success of individual subscription customers. Rather, the central obstacles must be addressed, examined, and subsequently overcome in a targeted manner in order to successfully establish subscription business models and place them on the market.
[Der Sammelband] Widmet sich den in Wissenschaft und Praxis aktuell intensiv diskutierten Fragestellungen zu Smart Services. Befasst sich mit Geschäftsmodellen, Erlösmodellen und Kooperationsmodellen von Smart Services. Geht auf branchenspezifischen Besonderheiten von Smart Services ein. (link.springer.com)
Today, maintenance exceeds this definition, it is significantly more.
In many companies, it plays the role of an incubator for development
and drives digital transformation forward. The very essence of
Industrie 4.0 is the optimisation of the flow of information within as
well as outside of a company to accelerate the adjustment of company
organisations in the context of increasing competitive pressure.
Because of the variety of interfaces, information and data that
is available as well as its service character, maintenance lends itself easily as the area of choice for a company to make Industrie 4.0 real. Whilst doing so, the aim is not to equip employees with the
latest “gimmick“ for order processment or to be the company with
the highest number of lighthouse projects. Instead, maintenance
ensures reliable and cost-efficient production and, consequently,
the primary creation of added value of the manufacturing company.
Those who were identified as top performers during the “Smart
Maintenance“ consortium benchmarking by FIR at RWTH Aachen
University gain particular useful ideas twice as often as other follower companies directly from staff, thus releasing the right potential.
Information and data help to reach these goals and transfer the
vision of smart maintenance into actual pratice. But what is smart
maintenance exactly and how far along are you in the development
of your individual smart maintenance concept?
Electricity generated by wind turbines (WT) is a mainstay of the transition to renewable energy. In order to economically utilize WT is, operating and maintenance costs, which account for 25% of total electricity generation costs in onshore WT’s, are a focus of cost reduction activities. Implementing a data-driven prescriptive maintenance approach is one way to achieve this. So far, various approaches for prescriptive maintenance for onshore WT’s have been suggested.
However, little research has addressed the practical implementation considering sociotechnical aspects. The aim of this paper is therefore to identify success factors for the successful implementation of such a maintenance strategy with clear and holistic guidance on how existing knowledge on prescriptive maintenance from science can be transferred to business practice. These recommendations are developed through case study research and classified in the four structural areas of Acatech’s Industry 4.0 Maturity Index: Resources, Information Systems, Organizational Structure and Culture.
Towards a Methodology to Determine Intersubjective Data Values in Industrial Business Activities
(2021)
This paper contributes to a valuation framework for valuing data as an intangible asset. Especially those industrial manufacturers developing and delivering holistic digital solutions are limited in calculating the true business value of data initiatives. Since the value of data is strongly dependent on the respective use case, a completely objective valuation is not possible. This complicates decision-making on the internal side regarding investments in digital transformation, and on the external side to communicate existing benefits to third parties via financial reporting. Therefore, the target is to design a valuation framework that allows industrial manufacturers to determine an intersubjective, i.e., traceable and transparent, data value. In order to develop a framework that can be applied in practice, the approach is based on industrial case study research.
Lean Services ist ein am FIR an der RWTH Aachen entwickeltes Managementkonzept, das die Vermeidung von Verschwendung und die konsequente Ausrichtung der Serviceprozesse an der Erzielung eines möglichst hohen Kundennutzens fokussiert. Konkret bedeutet dies, die Gestaltung schlanker Prozesse bei gleichzeitig komplexer werdenden Markt- und Kundenanforderungen zu berücksichtigen.
Im Mittelpunkt von Industrie 4.0 steht die echtzeitfähige und Intelligente Vernetzung von Menschen, Maschinen und Software, mit dem Ziel, komplexe Systeme transparent zu gestalten und dynamisch zu managen. Industrie 4.0 kann somit als Ergänzung des Lean-Services-Ansatzes dazu beitragen, die zunehmende Komplexität in der Leistungserbringung beherrschbar zu machen. Die Potenziale digitaler Technologien müssen dabei allerdings zunächst durch die Anwendung grundlegender Lean-Prinzipen "nutzbar" gemacht werden. Der Lean-Services-4.0-Zyklus gibt vor, wie Unternehmen diesen Weg gestalten können, indem die fünf Phasen des bewährten Aachener Lean-Services-Zyklus, ergänzt durch die drei übergeordneten Schalen Technologische Enabler, 'Lean Services 4.0'-Methoden und Potenziale von Lean Services 4.0 durchlaufen werden.
Die in der produzierenden Industrie fortschreitende Digitalisierung geht mit großen Potenzialen einher. Nichtsdestotrotz blieb der realisierte Nutzen aus der Digitalisierung bisher hinter den Erwartungen zurück. Durch Smart Services besteht die Möglichkeit, neue digitale Geschäftsmodelle mit Fokus auf einen hohen Kundennutzen zu realisieren und folglich mit einer individuellen und dennoch skalierbaren Lösung auf effiziente Weise Wertschöpfung zu generieren.