Discussion on maintenance strategy, policy and corresponding maintenance systems in manufacturing

This paper presents a case study on aintenance at robotic car assembly lines, and further gives a discussion on how to form an optimum maintenance strategy, policy and corresponding maintenance systems in order to achieve high reliability, availability, safety and productivity of manufacturing systems. It stresses that it is technically possible and economically necessary to maintain the manufacturing systems in a preventive and predictive way by development of maintenance systems for early-warnings, fault-tracking and quick decisionmaking, with the trend towards automation, integration and openness.