Last November at the AEM multi-sectoral forum on maintenance, José Luis Bernal Santiago, DIRECTOR SS.TT. DE MASA, and José Daniel Guirado Camacho, The presentation was entitled: «ANALYSIS OF THE DEGREE OF MATURITY FOR CHANGE. SUCCESS STORIES«.«

In this presentation, they discussed how to implement maintenance 4.0. within a well-designed strategy, based on maintenance engineering, applicable to any sector and speciality.

The maintenance 4.0 strategy should be considered as a chapter within a global digitisation project. Focusing on maintenance 4.0, we should add that digitisation should be a tool at the service of the strategy, “let's digitise only what works”.

Taking this statement into account, and based on our extensive experience, a “prior study of the degree of maturity for the change to maintenance 4.0” is essential as a starting point, in our case we use the EAC methodology (studies and analysis in the field), integrated as one of our maintenance engineering tools of the “Masa Model”. In these EACs we will distinguish two main objective blocks of the analysis:

  • The first is composed of direct aspects of our designed maintenance management strategy in the following areas:
    • Organisation, personnel and relations
    • Planning (preparation), prioritisation and preparation of work
    • Maintenance engineering (plans and indicators
    • Utilisation factor
    • Warehousing and purchasing
  • The second block is composed of aspects related to the following technological areas of advanced digital self-diagnosis: automation, connectivity, applications and digital data, not forgetting the relationship between IT/OT.
    After this phase of analysis and implementation of the associated action plan, the implementation of digital tools is simplified to optimise each of the processes of the PDCA cycle and the management of the CMMS system, guaranteeing its integration in the global Digitalisation project of our Client.

Finally, it is important to highlight that, for the development of Digitalisation projects, the participation of Maintenance Companies is required, which have Technical Experts in the analysis of the degree of maturity and Technological Partners, who provide experience in the development of software platforms (mobility applications, development of interfaces with CMMSs...).

We will support our dissertation with a couple of success stories, in which we have implemented our strategy based on the “MASS MODEL”.