Industrial maintenance 4(.0) Horizon Europe: Consequences of the Iron Curtain and Energy-Based Maintenance

• Published in: Journal of cleaner production 2021-09, Vol.314, p.128034, Article 128034
• Main Authors: Orošnjak, Marko, Jocanović, Mitar, Čavić, Maja, Karanović, Velibor, Penčić, Marko
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Energy-Based Maintenance; Horizon Europe; Maintenance decision-making; Sustainability maintenance; Systematic review
• ISSN: 0959-6526; 1879-1786
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.128034

The advent of innovation compelled scholars to go beyond personal ideological views towards sustainable issues, consequently losing the perspective of technological freedom. With that in mind, the polarised technological landscape in which industrial maintenance finds itself seems to exhibit more philosophical behaviour, as observed by the exponential rise of narrative reviews. Nevertheless, in the face of the industrial “Fourth Wave”, academicians who govern scientific advancement of maintenance, underpinned with Research and Innovation funds, seem to be disseminating excess scientific tutelage rather than productively altering maintenance, which provoked us to conduct a twofold analysis. Firstly, based on the Evidence-Based Approach (EBA), we systematically analyse maintenance-related EU projects. Secondly, to align with Green Deal EU targets by fostering decarbonisation of asset-intensive industries, we utilise the Preferred Reporting Items and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) framework for analysing energy-dedicated maintenance literature. The evidence suggests that ongoing research includes optimisation of maintenance activities for the sake of sustainability, on one side, while on the other, evidence suggests that energy consumption parameters can be considered as maintenance indicators used for diagnostic and prognostic feature selection purposes. Finally, results provide several insights: (1) absence of sustainability indicators in decision-making is a strong argument for the lack of maintenance impact in Industry 4.0, (2) manufacturing sector represents the first momentum of Energy-Based Maintenance evolution, and (3) gentrification and technology transfer activities will enable the smoother transition of sustainable maintenance practice. •Achievements of EU R&I industrial maintenance projects are critically appraised.•Evidence shows that 0,21% of the FP5-FP8 budget dedicates to maintenance projects.•“Iron Curtain” dichotomy emphasises more maintenance projects on the West EU side.•Neglecting energy by decision-makers are barriers to maintenance evolution.•Energy-Based Maintenance (EBM) lacks research data on failure mechanisms.