State of the art in Through-life Engineering Services

Simulation analysis of engineering business process in asset sustainment activities based on total cost of ownership

“…54 To meet many challenges in through-life-support businesses, structured and defined methods are essential while the system continues to adopt state-of-the-art technologies. 55 Vanwersch et al 56 argued that redesign of business processes could have a huge potential in terms of reducing process costs and throughput times, as well as improving customer satisfaction. Therefore, changes in business processes is frequently required to improve business performance.…”

An overview of self-engineering systems

“…Designers typically aim to produce robust or resilient systems; however, regular maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) services are still required to prolong life. Current research in MRO focuses on condition monitoring, predictive maintenance and preventive maintenance which still require human intervention (de Jonge and Scarf 2020; Redding and Tjahjono 2018;Roy et al 2016;Zonta et al 2020;Kang, Sobral, and Guedes Soares 2019a). To maintain future systems, a more ambitious self-engineering system design is required which can maintain key functions of a system or product, despite lifetime degradation, wear, damage, or failures.…”

“…TES support and enable the development and application of Servitisation and Product-Service System (PSS) businesses which require sustained and optimum product availability to maximise income. Monitoring, diagnostics, and prognostics technologies are used to gather data and knowledge on performance, degradation and failures and inform services (Redding and Tjahjono 2018;Redding and Roy 2015). However, SE attempts to automate processes and remove the need for human control from the services.…”