Towards intelligent and sustainable production : combining and integrating online predictive maintenance and continuous quality control

• The paper addresses intelligent and sustainable production in the sense of combining and integrating online predictive maintenance andcontinuous quality control. The rationale for combining and integrating them is that continuous quality control can provide input to the onlinepredictive maintenance in cases where no signs of maintenance issues have been indicated and inadequate output is produced (and the processparameters cannot be adjusted in order to meet the output specifications). The paper outlines the first part of an action research effort atGestamp HardTech AB in Sweden, whose objective is to keep its position as a world-leading provider of press-hardened vehicle parts. The firstinitial design criteria concerned with simplicity and low-cost was changed after learning more details and what can be accomplished, and theupdated first design criteria focused instead on robustness, high-quality output and future-proofing. The intermediary result is an action plan forthe technical change, whereas the organizational change will be addressed later during the action research effort.

Subject headings

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik -- Reglerteknik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering -- Control Engineering (hsv//eng)

Keyword

continuous quality control

intelligent

online predictive maintenance

production

sustainable

Reglerteknik

Control Engineering

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

art (subject category)