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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?
The change from the traditional to the digital service provider is not easy. The digital maturity level of many industrial companies is still too low to successfully place these digital service innovations on the market. One problem of service development is the increasing involvement of information and communication technology in service development and implementation. The additional technology makes the innovation processes for services on the part of manufacturers increasingly complex by involving different internal and external stakeholders (e.g. IT partners, data protection officers or product development departments). In addition to this, data-driven services also require that manufacturers (e.g. data scientists) develop new competencies in order to use the customer data obtained to increase machine productivity and to offer new business models. Furthermore, industrial companies that want to successfully offer data-driven services must develop new market introduction strategies to create a high degree of acceptance and trust among their customers. This is necessary to get access to relevant data. These and other challenges caused the success rate of companies in regarding the development of new, industrial services to shrink.
To change this, this white paper presents six principles that help industrial enterprises to develop new successful data-driven services.
Der Wandel vom traditionellen zum digitalen Dienstleister ist nicht ohne weiteres zu vollziehen. So ist der digitale Reifegrad vieler Industrieunternehmen noch zu gering, um diese digitalen Service-Innovationen erfolgreich am Markt zu platzieren.
Ein Problem der Dienstleistungsentwicklung ist die zunehmende Einbindung von Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie in die Dienstleistungsentwicklung und -durchführung. Die zusätzliche Technologie lässt die Innovationsprozesse für Dienstleistungen auf Seiten der Hersteller immer komplexer werden, indem unterschiedliche interne und externe Stakeholder einbezogen werden müssen (z. B. IT-Partner, Datenschutzbeauftragte oder die Produktentwicklung). Zudem erfordern datenbasierte Dienstleistungen den Aufbau neuer Kompetenzen beim Hersteller (z. B. Data-Scientists), um die gewonnenen Kundendaten zur Steigerung der Maschinenproduktivität nutzen und neue Geschäftsmodelle anbieten zu können. Darüber hinaus müssen Industrieunternehmen, welche erfolgreich datenbasierte Dienstleistungen anbieten wollen, neue Markteinführungsstrategien entwickeln, um bei den Kunden ein hohes Maß an Akzeptanz und Vertrauen zu schaffen und so an relevante Daten zu gelangen. Diese und weitere Herausforderungen lassen die Erfolgsquote von Unternehmen bei der Entwicklung neuer, industrieller Dienstleistungen stetig schrumpfen. Im vorliegenden Whitepaper werden sechs Prinzipien aufgezeigt, die Industrieunternehmen als Hilfestellung bei der Entwicklung neuer, datenbasierter Dienstleistungen dienen.
Die Instandhaltung, konsequent zu Ende gedacht, ist ein zentraler Treiber für den Unternehmenswert und wird damit für viele produzierende Unternehmen zum strategischen Erfolgsfaktor. Da für die meisten Unternehmen ein umfangreicher Mitarbeiter- und Ressourcenaufbau nicht in Frage kommt, stehen diese Unternehmen vor der Herausforderung, den Wertbeitrag vorhandener Mitarbeiter und Ressourcen zu maximieren. Dies führt zum Konzept Return on Maintenance (RoM). Der Wertbeitrag der Instandhaltung geht dabei über die reine Herstellung von Verfügbarkeit zu möglichst geringen Kosten weit hinaus. Zielgrößen wie Ausschussrate, Energieeffizienz, Materialeffizienz aber auch die Minimierung von Rüstzeiten zeigen die vielfältigen Zielgrößen der Instandhaltung auf.
The FIR at the RWTH Aachen University continuously develops the concept and the principles of RoM further. It is already noticeable that the gap between companies that began preparing their maintenance departments for Industrie 4.0 years ago and those that are still struggling with the mere foundations of a professional maintenance organisation is rapidly increasing.
The first driver of the development sparked by Industrie 4.0 is the collection of and work with condition data. It is used to create a digital shadow of a service, e.g. maintenance measures in a specific
context. In the future, critical machine functions will be monitored continuously within production processes.
Based on these observations, the likelihood of machine failures can be predicted, which makes it possible to prioritize data-based maintenance measures. This means that maintenance activities, i.e. production plans, are based on prognoses regarding machine failures. By doing so, the currently existing separation between inspection, maintenance and reactive measures can be overcome, resulting in a holistic approach to maintenance. Maintenance specialists receive support from assistance systems, which give them access to all relevant information (e.g. machine history, spare part availability, proposals for measures, etc.). As a result, they can take on routine tasks in different areas as well and contribute to the increased flexibility of the production process. Although data is becoming an increasingly important driver of successful maintenance strategies,
maintenance employees continue to be central to specific tasks, machines and systems. In the future, it can be expected that they choose to become experts in a certain field and, ideally, actively share their knowledge with others within an open maintenance culture. Systems for interdisciplinary collaboration will be made part of everyday practice.
The maintenance department will be a center and distributor of knowledge in the agile company of the future.Only through the interaction of the outlined success principles, which amount to a paradigm shift within the maintenance department, the potential
benefit of maintenance as defined by RoM can be fully exploited, creating a long-term competitive advantage for those who consistently follow the path towards Industrie 4.0 in maintenance.