WHERE DO WE START? GUIDANCE FOR TECHNOLOGY IMPLEMENTATION IN MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT FOR MANUFACTURING

Published

July 23, 2019

Author(s)

Michael P. Brundage, Thurston B. Sexton, Melinda Hodkiewicz, Katherine C. Morris, Jorge Arinez, Farhad Ameri, Jun Ni, Guoxian Xiao

Abstract

Recent efforts in Smart Manufacturing (SM) have proven quite effective at elucidating system behavior using sensing systems, communications and computational platforms, along with statistical methods to collect and analyze real-time performance data. However, how do you effectively select where and when to implement these technology solutions within manufacturing operations? Furthermore, how do you account for the humandriven activities in manufacturing when inserting new technologies? Due to a reliance on human problem solving skills, today's maintenance operations are largely manual processes without wide-spread automation. The current state-of-the-art maintenance management systems and out-of-the-box solutions do not directly provide necessary synergy between human and technology, and many paradigms ultimately keep the human and digital knowledge systems separate. Decision makers are using one or the other on a case-by-case basis, causing both human and machine to cannibalize each other's function, leaving both disadvantaged despite ultimately having common goals. A new paradigm can be achieved through a hybridized systems approach — where human intelligence is effectively augmented with sensing technology and decision support tools, including analytics, diagnostics, or prognostic tools. While these tools promise more efficient, cost-effective maintenance decisions, and improved system productivity, their use is hindered when it is unclear what core organizational or cultural problems they are being implemented to solve. This paper adopts error mitigation frameworks from human factors experts, who have been promoting human-systems integration for decades, to guide where and how to insert SM technologies into a humandominated maintenance management process.

Proceedings Title

Proceedings of the ASME 2019 International Manufacturing Science and Engineering
Conference

Conference Dates

June 9-15, 2019

Conference Location

Erie, PA

Conference Title

Proceedings of the ASME 2019 International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference
MSEC2019

Pub Type

Conferences

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https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4044105

Citation

Brundage, M. , Sexton, T. , Hodkiewicz, M. , Morris, K. , Arinez, J. , Ameri, F. , Ni, J. and Xiao, G. (2019), WHERE DO WE START? GUIDANCE FOR TECHNOLOGY IMPLEMENTATION IN MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT FOR MANUFACTURING, Proceedings of the ASME 2019 International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference, Erie, PA, [online], https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4044105 (Accessed November 21, 2024)