Title
The value of 5G connectivity for maintenance in manufacturing industry
Abstract
Digitalization is an ongoing revolution within manufacturing industry. 5G technology is expected to play an important role in ensuring connectivity. Digitalized factories set high requirements on technical availability, and therefore also on maintenance performance. However, it is difficult to get top-level decision makers to invest in maintenance, since the effects are usually deferred and difficult to verify up front. For quantifying long term effects, Discrete Event Simulation (DES) is identified as a powerful tool. In this study, DES was combined with established maintenance concepts to provide analysis of a real-world industrial 5G pilot implementation. Maintenance concepts were used to identify relevant inputs and outputs to the simulation model. The model was tested on a use case, where 5G enables support for maintenance tasks. By applying DES and maintenance concepts on more use cases, there is a potential to quantify effects of maintenance and enable digitalized production in a larger scale.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.5555/3242181.3242527
WSC '17: Winter Simulation Conference Las Vegas Nevada December, 2017
Field
DocType
ISSN
Manufacturing,Use case,Systems engineering,Computer science,Risk analysis (engineering),Discrete event simulation
Conference
0891-7736
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5386-3427-1
0
0.34
References 
Authors
2
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Camilla Lundgren100.34
Anders Skoogh27910.03
Björn Johansson314620.88
Johan Stahre46111.67
Martin Friis500.34