Strategic maintenance planning in the digital era: a hybrid approach merging Reliability-Centered Maintenance with digitalization opportunities

In the age of digital transformation, maintenance operations are crucial for leveraging the potential of Industry 4.0 and 5.0. Yet, this domain remains significantly under-optimized in terms of strategic maintenance planning and enhancing asset performance. The advent of smart technologies offers a...

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Published in:Operations management research 2024-12, Vol.17 (4), p.1397-1420
Main Authors: Introna, Vito, Santolamazza, Annalisa
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Business and Management
Criticality aspects
Digital technology
Digitization
Engineering Economics
Failure modes
Industrial and Production Engineering
Industry 4.0
Innovation/Technology Management
Logistics
Maintenance
Management
Marketing
Operations Management
Operations Research/Decision Theory
Organization
Planning
Production lines
Reliability
Strategic management
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Summary:In the age of digital transformation, maintenance operations are crucial for leveraging the potential of Industry 4.0 and 5.0. Yet, this domain remains significantly under-optimized in terms of strategic maintenance planning and enhancing asset performance. The advent of smart technologies offers a myriad of innovative avenues; however, harnessing these effectively requires systematic planning that incorporates these new, various and quite diversified, smart practices. Thus, this paper proposes a new methodological approach to maintenance planning, based on the Reliability-Centered Maintenance method, aimed at providing an operative tool for organizations to foster the evolution of their maintenance plans towards the paradigm of digitalization. This novel method enables the identification of hidden opportunities of improvement not identifiable through the use of the traditional approach through the proposal of an Opportunity Index, to use together with the Criticality Index in asset selection, and a Digitalization Score to use during Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis. The proposed method is applied to transform the maintenance planning of a production line, thus identifying the opportunities of the approach and testing its feasibility.
ISSN:1936-9735
1936-9743
DOI:10.1007/s12063-024-00496-y