In their pursuit of establishing Factories of the Future, companies encounter various obstacles related to the Availability of 3M’s [Man, Machine and Material], which can result in elevated operating costs as well as interruptions in their operations.

One of the most significant challenges is availability of Machine. This is where “Infosys Asset Maintenance Framework”, comes into picture and provides robust solution that enhances maintenance operations in manufacturing, enabling teams to operate more efficiently and proactively.

What Challenge Industry is facing?

• Machine Availability
  • Lack of information on maintenance schedule for machines
  • Lack of visibility of maintenance spare in advance
  • Lack of correct maintenance procedure / safety instructions available during maintenance time
• Disconnected systems
  • Production and Maintenance teams working in siloes
  •  No integrated monitoring of key machine parameters
• Multiple applications
  • No single solution to track all types of Maintenance and machine monitoring
• High Cost of Sustenance
  • Unplanned downtime
  •  Productivity
  •  Resource utilization
  •  Delayed delivery to customer
• Product quality

Key Features of “Infosys Asset Maintenance Framework” Solution

Infosys Asset Maintenance Framework provides unified solution for all types of Maintenance along with visibility for Spare parts and real time access to machine key parameters.

• Unified Solution
  • One solution with 3 functionalities for Preventive, Reactive and condition-based monitoring maintenance.
• Integration with Level 2 and Level 4 System
  • Integration with Level 2 (Scada) and Level 4 (ERP) system to have end to end visibility and real time monitoring of machine data and act based on trend.
• Reports and Dashboard
  • Multiple Reports, Dashboards and Alerts to provide visibility of maintenance work (Current, Past and Future).
  • Live updates for the production team regarding the status of maintenance orders
  • Enhanced look screen with better look and feel
• Process Optimizations
  • Flow of work between Production and Maintenance team
  • Spare part visibility and alert based on unavailability.
  • Assigning multiple operators / Crew to one Order.
  • Hold functionality to maintenance order
  • Scheduling of CBM maintenance & simplifying resetting the counter (hrs.) on the CBM screen

Functional Flow of Different types of Maintenance

A.      Preventive Maintenance Flow

B.      Reactive Maintenance Flow

C.      Condition based Monitoring Flow

Technology Supported

• DELMIA Apriso, SAP ME/MII, Infosys Proprietary Connected Ops on cloud

Benefits to Customer

• Infrastructure Independent => Solution can be implemented for Apriso application hosted on Prem or On Cloude
• Best Practices => Industry Best Practices for multiple projects and standard maintenance applications are used.
• Tool Agonistic Solution => Solution can be implemented for different types of machines, only prerequisites are machine must be able to share data with common protocol.
• Faster time to Market => Solution covers most of common business process and provides connectivity with L2 and L4 system. As this is prebuild solution this can be deployed to Customer site in short span for business scenarios verification and configuration. Post that it can be made available for production deployment within few weeks.
• Reduction in rejection => With the help on Condition based monitoring, we will be continuously checking key parameters of machine, this will help to reduce any unwanted issues before they occur.
• Spare inventory Optimization => For preventive maintenance, solution will keep track of schedule as well as Inventory requirement. Based on Schedule, solution will check if Inventory is available based on lead time, if not then alert will be created. Inventory consumption for all spare parts will be tracked with actual maintenance order and based on Maintenance priority.
• Safety Incident reduction => With the help on Condition based monitoring, we will be continuously checking key parameters of machine, this will help to reduce any safety incidence.
• Increased resource Utilization => Solution will help in reducing unplanned downtime, this will help in increase resource utilization both Man and Machine.

Conclusion

In today’s fast-paced Manufacturing environment, it is critical to have a comprehensive solution which helps to reduce unplanned downtime as well as track all Maintenance work. Infosys Asset Maintenance Framework provides robust solution that enhances maintenance operations in manufacturing, enabling teams to operate more efficiently and proactively.