The business scenario is focusing more on e-business intelligence to perform transaction with customers needs for enhanced value and improvement in asset management. Such prognostic business requirement is compelling the organizations to minimize the production and service downtime by reducing the machine performance degradation. The purpose of this paper is to undertake a mapping of the present status of the maintenance of the Swedish process industry, study their linkage and correlation between the business and maintenance processes, and the supporting Information & Communication Technology (ICT), in order to identify the feasibilities and challenges for implementing eMaintenance system. The focus of the work was to identify how the current maintenance process is defined, organized and performed; and how it is linked and correlated to the business and support processes and besides what is executed within the maintenance process.
Validerad; 2010; 20100520 (raka)