Systematic maintenance action modularization for improved initiative prioritization

Abstract

Maintenance action descriptions can easily contain large amounts of variation without describing variation in the actions taken. Especially when plants grow large, this variation makes it difficult to gain an overview and make decisions on initiative prioritization. This paper proposes a method for the decomposition of the maintenance actions into modules that can then give insight into the maintenance performance. The method evaluates the true variation of the maintenance actions and standardizes them, making it possible to show the true variation and performance of the maintenance activities

Modular Maintenance Decision Architecture

“…Architectures and platforming approaches are used for standardizing and managing large, complex systems (Otto et al, 2016;Simpson et al, 2014). The field has been developed over many decades within product portfolios (Meyer & Utterback, 1992;Mortensen et al, 2019) and engineering systems (Selva et al, 2016), and has more recently been implemented in fields such as services (de Mattos et al, 2021;Tuunanen et al, 2022), product-service systems (Cenamor et al, 2017;Johnson et al, 2021), and maintenance operations (Julie K. Agergaard et al, 2022b;Julie Krogh Agergaard et al, 2022;Kristoffer Vandrup Sigsgaard et al, 2022). This paper takes basis in the definition of a product architecture as the scheme by which functions are mapped to physical components (Ulrich, 1995).…”

“…This section introduces such a framework. While the development and execution of maintenance operations is quite dissimilar from product design, it is more similar to services as they are also intangible and multidimensional, indicating that the benefits reported so far from services ( de Mattos et al, 2021) might also be seen in maintenance management (Julie K. Agergaard et al, 2022b;Julie Krogh Agergaard et al, 2022;Kristoffer Vandrup Sigsgaard et al, 2022). The study by (Kristoffer Vandrup Sigsgaard et al, 2022) proposes understanding the architecture in the dimensions physical, action, and process.…”

“…Architecture studies have shown that the application of architecture and modularization approaches can improve a company's ability to manage large, complex product portfolios while still being able to deliver wide ranges of variety to customers (Mortensen et al, 2016;Simpson et al, 2014;Ulrich, 1995). The approaches have more recently been applied in fields such as services and maintenance as well, showing promising results in these more intangible and multidimensional domains as well (Julie Krogh Agergaard et al, 2022;de Mattos et al, 2021;Eissens-van der Laan et al, 2016;Kristoffer Vandrup Sigsgaard et al, 2022). The study in this paper applies an architecture approach from engineering design in order to map decisions to standardized information modules.…”