Cyber Physical System based Proactive Collaborative Maintenance

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An iterative process to extract value from maintenance projects

Publication . Mejía Niño, Carolina; Albano, Michele; Jantunen, Erkki; Sharma, Pankaj; Campos, Jaime; Baglee, David

Research and development projects are producing novel maintenance strategies and techniques. Anyway, it is not straightforward to transfer results from the lab to the real world, and thus many projects, both internal to a company and in cooperation between the members of a consortium, speculate how to perform this feat, called “exploitation” in the context of European projects. This paper discusses the necessity of novel techniques in modern maintenance, and then introduces a novel approach to the problem of transferring innovation from the lab to the market. The novel approach spawns from the “spiral software development” process and proceeds as a set of iterations that bring together different stakeholders to increase the number of products, techniques and results in general that can survive the end of a research and development project. The approach was applied to a large European project, which is described as use case, and the paper reports on the encouraging results that were attained.

2018Conference object

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Advanced sensor-based maintenance in real-world exemplary cases

Publication . Albano, Michele; Lino Ferreira, Luis; Orio, Giovanni Di; Maló, Pedro; Webers, Godfried; Jantunen, Erkki; Gabilondo, Iosu; Viguera, Mikel; Papa, Gregor

Collecting complex information on the status of machinery is the enabler for advanced maintenance activities, and one of the main players in this process is the sensor. This paper describes modern maintenance strategies that lead to Condition-Based Maintenance. This paper discusses the sensors that can be used to support maintenance, as of different categories, spanning from common off-the-shelf sensors, to specialized sensors monitoring very specific characteristics, and to virtual sensors. This paper also presents four different real-world examples of project pilots that make use of the described sensors and draws a comparison between them. In particular, each scenario has unique characteristics requiring different families of sensors, but on the other hand provides similar characteristics on other aspects.

2020Journal article

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