Strategic Maintenance: Improving Instead of Repairing

If maintenance is approached strategically, one looks at overall systems, an entire production, or a complete portfolio of machines in the field. This is also where the domain of "as-a-service" concepts begins: If a company operates machines at a customer's site and supplies the customer with the output of these machines, a strategic approach is unavoidable. If one enters a service contract to supply a certain quantity of parts, it makes much sense to use the experience gained on one machine to optimize all other machines before the same defect occurs on them.

Since this is not necessarily useful from a business point of view, Financially Optimized Maintenance applies the technology of Predictive Maintenance to the entire machine fleet. In other words, the sister machines are identified, but they are not simply replaced; instead, the components of these machines are put under closer observation, so to speak. If the values begin to drift as expected, the component can be replaced by its improved version.

Digitalization is changing maintenance: Instead of repairing or stubbornly replacing parts at specific points in time, sensors, data analytics and other technologies enable machines or entire machine fleets to operate with maximum efficiency and reliability.

This requires increasingly complex and far-reaching holistic IT tools as complexity increases. More and more data is being integrated and used in the process. Documentation, spare parts catalog, CAD data and other electronic information provide the overall picture of a machine or machine park that is necessary to approach the topic of maintenance in an equally holistic manner.

Our innovative service information system Quanos SIS.one provides you with the tools you need to align your maintenance strategies for the future.