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Large engineering plants (LEP) such as power plants, process plants, ship-borne machinery and aircraft have certain unique features that a combination of both time and condition based maintenance of the plants is considered necessary. It has, however, been observed that applied research leading to a systematic development of such a maintenance strategy needs further study. Such a strategy should not only harness the advantages of both time and condition based maintenance but also adopt a wholesome ‘Systems’ approach so that the realisation of the overall objectives of maintenance is maximised. e-Maintenance has in the last decade emerged as a coherent and effective amalgamation of information and communication technologies in the arena of maintenance playing a crucial role in maintenance decision making. The focal area of application of e-maintenance has been that of condition based maintenance—e-monitoring, e-diagnosis and e-prognosis. It may be observed that as far as LEPs are concerned, the capability of e-maintenance can be enhanced to add value to the entire maintenance strategy for the plant. In this paper a maintenance strategy for LEPs involving an integration of both time and condition based maintenance which also harnesses e-maintenance features is suggested. Frameworks are presented for maintenance decision making, integrated TBPM and CBPM, e-maintenance of LEPs and a systems approach to maintenance of LEPs.
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Verma, A.K., Srividya, A. & Ramesh, P.G. A systems approach to integrated E-maintenance of large engineering plants. Int J Syst Assur Eng Manag 1, 239–245 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13198-011-0044-y
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