Future Maintenance Technician
| Reference number | |
| Coordinator | SICS Swedish ICT Västerås AB |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 430 000 |
| Project duration | October 2015 - March 2016 |
| Status | Completed |
| Venture | Strategic innovation programme for process industrial IT and automation – PiiA |
| Call | Strategic innovation program PiiA - summer 2015 |
Important results from the project
The purpose of FUN was to see how the future service will work. The results showed the importance of taking advantage of different sources of information which are available. Experts can provide support wherever they are located, data from a variety of sources available through cloud services, colleagues may have suggestions. A major benefit will be to gain access to all this information in the fields where the equipment is located. The project has developed a clear planning for a future RDI projects focused on future service and maintenance technicians.
Expected long term effects
From data collection and analysis, we have been able to ensure that future maintenance will change the environment, and technology in which maintenance is carried out, the skills whos needed and how the work of maintenance will be organized. The needs that come up in our preliminary study shows the three areas that can improve the efficiency and quality of the maintenance work. These are new technologies, new and expanded expertise in technology and networking, which also changes the way to organize maintenance and asking new demands on organizations.
Approach and implementation
In this project we have collected and analyzed the data to identify how the maintenance and services works today and tomorrow. Data has been collected through a questionnaire from different industries , interviews and meetings with project participants. In a series of seminars with ABB, we had the opportunity to present our ideas for their customers also a literature search to identify what is happening in the outside world. Through our work we have been able to get a good picture of future maintenance and thus have a god basis for future RDI projects.