Maintenance of the future: the Smart Maintenance+
A holistic approach to excellent production processes
The maintenance of the future ensures maximum production efficiency, reduces the TCO, and guarantees maximum availability and flexibility – thus increasing profits. Digitization and the resulting networking of process management and plant operation make maintenance technicians the backbone of the Factory 4.0. The Smart Maintenance Pavilion inspires an in-depth examination of this overarching issue and covers other important maintenance-related topics, too – such as energy and resource efficiency, industrial services, digital after sales services as well as industrial IT applications.
Inseparably linked: smart factory and smart maintenance
Digital technology offers huge potential to companies as it paves the way to smart and networked production facilities. Extensive predictive maintenance efforts in production facilities play an important role in increasing efficiency in terms of expenses and resources. As part of holistic asset management, it becomes a cross-departmental interface and ensures both maximum system uptime and flexibility.
Maintenance, not downtime
The purpose of smart maintenance is to ensure smooth and uninterrupted operations at all times. Unplanned downtime costs a lot of money and threatens to disrupt the superordinate production process. Therefore, a smooth and uninterrupted production process with quality assurance and without unnecessary maintenance work is of the essence for companies. Problem: Many companies are still in the initial stages of implementing smart maintenance and need a whole lot of information to get it right. They often focus entirely on costs even though maintenance, when properly integrated in existing production processes, can quickly evolve from being a cost factor to adding value.
A holistic approach to smart maintenance
Maintenance is becoming an important interdisciplinary technology. Thus, the Smart Maintenance Pavilion also covers other important maintenance-related parts of the value chain and picks up topics such as energy and resource management, industrial services, digital after sales models as well as industrial IT solutions. It is a holistic approach that is also reflected in the pavilion's individual building blocks.
Live demonstrations in the Demo Park, talks in the Speakers Corner, and innovative product presentations by exhibitors offer an exciting mix of theory and practice with significant added value – not just for maintenance pros. The offer is also aimed at interested individuals from other corporate divisions. Whether plant developer, production planner, process engineer, supply chain manager, etc.: It is the perfect place for anyone looking to get a substantial overview and to make interdisciplinary contributions to process optimization efforts.
Range of topics
- Predictive maintenance
- condition monitoring, data acquisition and sensor technology
- software solutions for maintenance, plants, and process management
- cyber security
- data analytics, simulation, digital twin, artificial intelligence
- mobile maintenance
- field management
- remote services / maintenance
- extended reality solutions (virtual / augmented / mixed reality applications)
- self-sufficient inspection systems such as drones, cameras, robots
- after sales service models
- industrial services and retrofit
- maintenance concepts and methods
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