Final Report Summary - IMAPLA (Integrated Maintenance Planning)
PROJECT OBJECTIVES
It is commonly recognized that maintenance management of industrial plants is an interdisciplinary topic. Design and improvement of maintenance management systems can be achieved only by considering different interconnected methodologies and technologies. When building a maintenance management system, one should deserve attention to multiple and heterogeneous issues, such as: the ICT tools and platforms for maintenance and plant automation, machine diagnostics and prognostics, maintenance economics and planning, maintenance human resources, spare parts, etc...
Due to the above mentioned situation, an international interdisciplinary working group, endorsed by well recognized institutions, can be considered very important to overcome the "divide" situation among maintenance related disciplines and, in particular, to bring together, in the context of a collaborative scheme of research exchanges, the reciprocal knowledge.
The project iMaPla was endorsed by four institutions: 3 EU partners - Politecnico di Milano (DIG-POLIMI), University of Lorraine (UL), University of Seville (US) – and 1 Chilean partner - Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria (UTFSM-Valparaiso). The partners agreed on a common exchange program built around the theme of Integrated Maintenance Planning (iMaPla).
The project partners represent important research centres in maintenance field known at international level, and some of the partners have important roles in well known scientific communities (such as IFAC, IMS, ESREDA/ESREL, IFIP). Further on, all the project partners have important connections with national and international companies interested in maintenance. In this context, the iMaPla project has been a good instrument to strengthen research partnerships and actions in the maintenance field.
The exchange program aimed to facilitate deployment of a collaborative scheme focused on the exchange of the knowledge required to develop methods, models, ICT tools for Integrated Maintenance Planning. The knowledge was provided complementarily by the members of the project consortium. The complementarities were drawn out in accordance to a joint research vision, commonly shared by the partners at the moment of preparing the project. The project concerned the exchange activities of early and experienced researchers (PhD students, researchers and professors).
Each partner provided own competences to support the iMaPla vision. Indeed, the competences covered by the iMaPla consortium aimed at covering the knowledge and expertise required for decisions making in maintenance management. Targeted competences cover the following areas: (i) maintenance policy planning, based on reliability and availability analysis, maintenance policy modelling and multiple objective optimization of maintenance policies, life cycle costing; (ii) Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) and E-maintenance and, more precisely, condition monitoring and prognosis; (iii) maintenance resource planning, having a particular concern to spare parts inventory planning.
WORK PERFORMED AND MAIN RESULTS ACHIEVED
The exchanges of researchers enabled to transfer knowledge between the members of the iMaPla consortium and were deployed by a set of various activities: integrated exchange programs, training in laboratories, lectures exchange programs, workshops / seminars open also to external stakeholders.
PhD students and researchers performed integrated exchanges, namely periods abroad, used to let them gain knowledge on the research advances achieved in maintenance planning at the premises of a member of the project consortium. Locally, activities were organised, such as the attendance of courses and seminars, active participation to joint research activities and training in laboratories.
Researchers and professors held lectures as standalone lectures or as part of the didactic offer of the hosting institutions. PhD students of the partner institutions also attended these lectures.
Active participation to joint tutorship of industrial project works was organised. This activity concerned two industrial project works: one involved a Chilean engineer, it was organised in an Italian railway company; the other involved an Italian engineer, it was organised in a Chilean software house that develops solutions for maintenance analysis
Scientific workshops were organized, jointly with other scientific networks.
Joint publications were also a relevant objective of the iMaPla exchange program and lead to the presentation of researches jointly performed by the partners.
Research outcomes were firstly presented during international conferences, resulting in publications included in their conference proceedings. Subsequently, the preparation of other joint publications, namely articles for journals and book chapters have been addressed.
EXPECTED IMPACT AND USE OF THE RESULTS
One main result concerns the transfer of knowledge on research matters in maintenance management; joint publications co-authored by iMaPla partners will be a follow up. Another important result concerns the production of teaching material, prepared on the basis of industrial case studies. Such material enables partners of the consortium to deliver lectures based on common case studies as a synthesis of the knowledge and experience of the consortium on maintenance issues.
Eventually, by supporting staff exchanges and networking activities, the iMaPLa project was able to positively impact on future research results and innovation in the maintenance field. This may be of benefit in future projects relevant to industry: maintenance undoubtedly is an important field in industry at European and American level.
CONTACT DETAILS
For any further information, please contact:
Marco Garetti, Politecnico di Milano: marco.garetti@polimi.it
Adolfo Crespo Marquez, University of Seville: adolfo@etsi.us.es
Benoit Iung, University of Lorraine: Benoit.Iung@univ-lorraine.fr
Fredy Kristjanpoller, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria: fredy.kristjanpoller@usm.cl
It is commonly recognized that maintenance management of industrial plants is an interdisciplinary topic. Design and improvement of maintenance management systems can be achieved only by considering different interconnected methodologies and technologies. When building a maintenance management system, one should deserve attention to multiple and heterogeneous issues, such as: the ICT tools and platforms for maintenance and plant automation, machine diagnostics and prognostics, maintenance economics and planning, maintenance human resources, spare parts, etc...
Due to the above mentioned situation, an international interdisciplinary working group, endorsed by well recognized institutions, can be considered very important to overcome the "divide" situation among maintenance related disciplines and, in particular, to bring together, in the context of a collaborative scheme of research exchanges, the reciprocal knowledge.
The project iMaPla was endorsed by four institutions: 3 EU partners - Politecnico di Milano (DIG-POLIMI), University of Lorraine (UL), University of Seville (US) – and 1 Chilean partner - Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria (UTFSM-Valparaiso). The partners agreed on a common exchange program built around the theme of Integrated Maintenance Planning (iMaPla).
The project partners represent important research centres in maintenance field known at international level, and some of the partners have important roles in well known scientific communities (such as IFAC, IMS, ESREDA/ESREL, IFIP). Further on, all the project partners have important connections with national and international companies interested in maintenance. In this context, the iMaPla project has been a good instrument to strengthen research partnerships and actions in the maintenance field.
The exchange program aimed to facilitate deployment of a collaborative scheme focused on the exchange of the knowledge required to develop methods, models, ICT tools for Integrated Maintenance Planning. The knowledge was provided complementarily by the members of the project consortium. The complementarities were drawn out in accordance to a joint research vision, commonly shared by the partners at the moment of preparing the project. The project concerned the exchange activities of early and experienced researchers (PhD students, researchers and professors).
Each partner provided own competences to support the iMaPla vision. Indeed, the competences covered by the iMaPla consortium aimed at covering the knowledge and expertise required for decisions making in maintenance management. Targeted competences cover the following areas: (i) maintenance policy planning, based on reliability and availability analysis, maintenance policy modelling and multiple objective optimization of maintenance policies, life cycle costing; (ii) Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) and E-maintenance and, more precisely, condition monitoring and prognosis; (iii) maintenance resource planning, having a particular concern to spare parts inventory planning.
WORK PERFORMED AND MAIN RESULTS ACHIEVED
The exchanges of researchers enabled to transfer knowledge between the members of the iMaPla consortium and were deployed by a set of various activities: integrated exchange programs, training in laboratories, lectures exchange programs, workshops / seminars open also to external stakeholders.
PhD students and researchers performed integrated exchanges, namely periods abroad, used to let them gain knowledge on the research advances achieved in maintenance planning at the premises of a member of the project consortium. Locally, activities were organised, such as the attendance of courses and seminars, active participation to joint research activities and training in laboratories.
Researchers and professors held lectures as standalone lectures or as part of the didactic offer of the hosting institutions. PhD students of the partner institutions also attended these lectures.
Active participation to joint tutorship of industrial project works was organised. This activity concerned two industrial project works: one involved a Chilean engineer, it was organised in an Italian railway company; the other involved an Italian engineer, it was organised in a Chilean software house that develops solutions for maintenance analysis
Scientific workshops were organized, jointly with other scientific networks.
Joint publications were also a relevant objective of the iMaPla exchange program and lead to the presentation of researches jointly performed by the partners.
Research outcomes were firstly presented during international conferences, resulting in publications included in their conference proceedings. Subsequently, the preparation of other joint publications, namely articles for journals and book chapters have been addressed.
EXPECTED IMPACT AND USE OF THE RESULTS
One main result concerns the transfer of knowledge on research matters in maintenance management; joint publications co-authored by iMaPla partners will be a follow up. Another important result concerns the production of teaching material, prepared on the basis of industrial case studies. Such material enables partners of the consortium to deliver lectures based on common case studies as a synthesis of the knowledge and experience of the consortium on maintenance issues.
Eventually, by supporting staff exchanges and networking activities, the iMaPLa project was able to positively impact on future research results and innovation in the maintenance field. This may be of benefit in future projects relevant to industry: maintenance undoubtedly is an important field in industry at European and American level.
CONTACT DETAILS
For any further information, please contact:
Marco Garetti, Politecnico di Milano: marco.garetti@polimi.it
Adolfo Crespo Marquez, University of Seville: adolfo@etsi.us.es
Benoit Iung, University of Lorraine: Benoit.Iung@univ-lorraine.fr
Fredy Kristjanpoller, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria: fredy.kristjanpoller@usm.cl