Experts from leading international companies meet annually at the IMRWorX Industrial Maintenance & Reliability conference to discuss the latest trends in maintenance and repair. Maintenance, which influences up to 70 percent of costs in the major manufacturing industries, has evolved with technological progress to become a key value creation partner and productivity driver.
ConMoto partner Christian Frenzel spoke at IMRWorX about how digitalization is giving a new boost to system availability and how maintenance costs are being reduced by increasing efficiency. His presentation focused on predictive and preventive maintenance: what investments in systems, IT and sensor technology can increase the added value of these concepts? Other topics that were discussed with great interest were process improvements through mobile apps and applications from the fields of artificial intelligence and text mining.
The aim of continuous further development through digitalization is a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) that makes machine data usable for maintenance in an integrated IT environment and transforms into a self-learning system. Mobile maintenance is a building block that uses mobile apps for automated data exchange and intelligent planning and enables short response and turnaround times. Text mining on the other hand analyzes large volumes of text – operating manuals, product and material descriptions – and trains an AI algorithm. This structured evaluation allows problems with productive components to be predicted with greater accuracy or a wide variety of spare parts to be classified more effectively in spare parts management.
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