Abstract :
[en] Rapid development of ITC technologies and decreasing cost of their implications pave the road for the vast applications of conditional monitoring in industrial maintenance. In the mean time, maintenance outsourcing of the crucial equipments, as a part of new business strategy, has become a common practice of the SMEs to pursuit their commercial objectives. Implementations of the condition-based maintenance polices with the combination of outsourcing practices create an advanced collaborative business mode in the maintenance service market. To maximize the benefits of employing the new technologies and to deal with the complexity of the new business processes, efficient coordination (internal & external) is essentially required so as to treat timely the immense signals from the sensors, to share information between the actors, to analyze system's reliability, to choose the suitable strategies & policies, to negotiate between partners, and to plan & execute the maintenance actions. In search for the optimal solution to meet the needs of such management complexity, a Cyber-based platform was defined and is being developed. This paper analyzes the business needs of maintenance outsourcing in nowadays tech-economic environments and presents the elemental structure, the main characteristics, the working mechanism, and the key advantages of such a management platform that is elaborated on the base of the operational prototype of an outsourcing company. Deep impacts of such platform on the future modes and business processes of maintenance operations will be analyzed, assessed, and prospected.
