As Digital transformation is catching up the pace in this challenging situation, various questions are arising regarding how the digital transformation is impacting the maintenance activities in a manufacturing industry. Many countries are reopening there manufacturing plants after long time, this has introduced few challenges to the companies. Biggest challenge being how to pick up the pace and start having profits. To overcome the challenges like this, a company should be able to handle their assets efficiently so that the operation doesn’t stop due to equipment breakdown. Question now is whether all the companies are better off to start with operation after a long lockdown, are the equipment’s in good condition? Additionally concerns are also about the safety and skillset, are companies prepared for all this challenges even before starting the operation. Answer could be “may be” or “may be not” depending on the maturity.

Companies following the traditional way of maintenance would find it very difficult to handle the above mentioned challenges. Also present market calls for global competition for which companies should be able to produce at max with minimum or no maintenance breakdowns and with less lead time to repair post covid-19 lockdown. Most of you will believe that, presently traditional companies during any breakdown/repair of equipment waste lot of their time to check the problem and get the tool kit from maintenance room, which normally takes over 70% of their time. This is one of the few examples which calls for digital transformation.

Hence, to overcome the list of challenges it’s important to have digital connectivity of the equipment and machines to gather information about the performance of the equipment and machine. This will help teams to have the information in real time, helping maintenance team to resolve issues much quickly. Fusion between the real and the virtual world is possible, which results in a greater capacity for interaction and communication with the equipment. Digital transformed companies are performing very differently and efficiently in terms of

1. Preventive Maintenance
2. Increased Safety
3. Improved lead time for repair
4. Reduced cost and energy
5. Good reactive maintenance flow
6. Faster response to line breakdowns
7. Paperless maintenance

Maintenance solution is very valuable for the companies to be efficient and to follow data driven approach for resolving any complexity in maintenance.

For companies to be “Companies of the future”, maintenance module will play an important role. 

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