UPTIME Newsletter - March 2021 edition

Welcome to the 8th edition of the UPTIME Newsletter.

The UPTIME project has officially ended in February 2021. After 3,5 years of research and development, the UPTIME Platform is ready now for the market. The UPTIME consortium has defined a concrete go-to-market strategy to optimize the impact of the UPTIME Platform on the market and maximize its chances of success. The consortium feels this is the right time to launch a new solution for predictive maintenance with all of the advanced features the UPTIME Platform and its substituent components offer.

UPTIME proposes a differentiating value proposition, and its business model offers enough flexibility to reach a wide range of companies of different size and type. The market-oriented website – www.uptime-predictive-maintenance.com – with clear key messages and its demo-space is a good tool to get new leads and will be further built upon and utilized going forward in the exploitation activities. An adoption methodology for UPTIME deployment has been also created according to the successful deployment in the three business cases and is introduced in this Newsletter.

The consortium plans to drive forward the convergence of the UPTIME Platform with Industry 4.0 standards and beyond that, to address the issues that are beginning to be championed under the banner of Industry 5.0.

A strong foundation has been laid for the convergence with Industry 4.0 in the full compliance of the UPTIME Platform with the RAMI 4.0 reference architecture and addressing Asset Administration Shell (AAS) interoperability. The next step is to realise the AAS interface more fully and establish the UPTIME Platform as a Digital Twin for asset maintenance.

Events such as the 2nd UPTIME showcase event will be repeated since they proved extremely helpful in overcoming constraints imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, however a live and in-person event will be organized as soon as possible in the post-project commercial phase. As a first step, UPTIME will be hosted by BIBA at Digital Hannover Messe event, which will take place from 12 – 16 April 2021. We’d like to take this opportunity to invite you to join us virtually at this event. You can register your participation free of charge using the ticket code “CVJVm” through this link.

On a wider scale, the cooperation begun in the framework of the ForeSee cluster will also be maintained by the UPTIME partners, to contribute in the implementation of its structured Predictive Maintenance roadmap and to have a greater impact on standards and production of commons for European industry, which will shape the access to the new market of maintenance, which is key for the industry of the future.

A full newsletter is available: https://www.uptime-h2020.eu/index.php/2021/03/31/uptime-8th-newsletter-edition-03-2021/

UPTIME Newsletter - November 2020 edition

Welcome to the 7th edition of the UPTIME Newsletter.

The UPTIME project has entered the final phase. The prototype of the UPTIME Platform has been deployed into the three industrial business cases in its final configuration.

The UPTIME Platform gives you a competitive advantage by empowering everyone involved in your maintenance activities. Operational staff and managers benefit from real-time visualization of asset conditions, correlation analyses and accurate predictions. Maintenance managers benefit from actionable plans based on accurate predictions, increasing efficiency and reducing costs. All stakeholders gain valuable insights into the data thanks to intuitive, customizable visualization. In this edition, we gladly present you 10 main added-values of UPTIME Platform perceived by our industrial end-users.

In addition to the six main components of the UPTIME Platform introduced in the previous newsletters, in this issue, we are proud to announce the UPTIME Workers’ Mobile Application, which helps workers on the shop floor stay up-to-date in real-time about their maintenance tasks.

A full newsletter is available: https://www.uptime-h2020.eu/index.php/2020/11/20/uptime-7th-newsletter-edition-11-2020/

UPTIME 3rd Live Webinar: Predictive Maintenance: Lessons Learned and Best Practices in Aviation Industry - 10 Dec 2020

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Date: Thu, 10 December 2020

Time: 11:00 - 12:30 CET

The UPTIME 3rd Webinar will address benefits of predictive maintenance in a highly complex transportation asset operations deployed in the aviation industry. UPTIME Partner from FFT Produktionssyteme GmbH & Co. KG will share his experiences, challenges and some lessons learnt from the implementation of the UPTIME Platform in the FFT use case.

The use case focusses on one specific production logistics asset used in the aviation industry, so-called “jig” for the transport of wing covers of commercial aircraft. The reliability of production logistics assets is a critical cost factor in the production of high-value products such as aircraft and needs to be considered along with the reliability of other production equipment to ensure a timely, cost-effective and high-quality production processes. Due to the critical nature of the deployment of these assets, the requirements are both technically and organisationally very high. The need has arisen to increase efficiency in maintenance execution as well as in reporting to the client, who in most of our projects is responsible for the logistics coordination of their assets.

The web seminar is free of charge, dedicated to people who want to learn and see a concrete implementation of the UPTIME Predictive Maintenance Platform in a real business case. It is interactive, where you have the opportunity to ask questions to the experts panel and we are happy to receive your feedback.

If you have any questions or comments, please contact us.

UPTIME Newsletter - June 2020

Welcome to the 6th edition of the UPTIME Newsletter!

The UPTIME project has entered the evaluation phase. The prototype of the UPTIME Platform has been integrated into the three industrial business cases in its final configuration. In this edition, MAILLIS shares with us their first-hand experience and some lessons learned from the recent implementation of the UPTIME Platform in the MAILLIS Business Case, which deals with predictive maintenance in a cold rolling mill for the production of steel strapping.

In the previous newsletters, we introduced five of the UPTIME Platform’s main components. In this issue, we’ll present the last component prototype, UPTIME_VISUALIZE, which provides individual, customizable and configurable visualisation of data in a customer-oriented way. Its implementation in the MAILLIS Business Case is used as an example of how it works.

We have also been organising a series of webinars showcasing the main features of the UPTIME Platform including live demonstrations of their implementation in our industrial use cases. The first webinar on the implementation in the White Goods case was held on 19 March 2020. In case you missed it, you can find the webinar recording here.

The second webinar, “UPTIME Predictive Maintenance: Lessons Learned and Best Practices in the Steel Industry“, will take place on Thursday, 09 July 2020, 11:00 – 12:30 CEST. We hope you can join our webinar and look forward to interacting with you and getting your valuable feedback. To register and get more detailed information about the webinar, please click here.  We hope you enjoy our newsletter!

A full newsletter is available: https://www.uptime-h2020.eu/index.php/2020/06/26/uptime-6th-newsletter-edition-06-2020/

UPTIME 2nd Live Webinar: Predictive Maintenance - Lessons Learned & Best Practices in Steel Industry - 9 July 2020

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Date: Thu, 09 July 2020

Time: 11:00 - 12:30 CEST

Are all of the maintenance activities performed at a certain period of time necessary or can maintenance intervals be expanded in order to reduce the economic impact?

The UPTIME 2nd Webinar will address the key questions above and illustrate benefits of predictive maintenance by a concrete implementation in the Steel Industry. MAILLIS business case dealing with cold rolling mill for the production of steel strapping will be presented and its implementation in the UPTIME Platform will be demonstrated.

It is of outmost importance for manufacturing to have their machine or a piece of equipment that can tell its current health status and the degree to which that status deviates from normal or healthy along with predictions about its future health state, as well as actions recommendations. UPTIME will allow machines to perform self-assessment, on the basis of which decision making can be significantly enabled, to anticipate planned intervention on machines, to reduce unexpected breakdowns and delay other interventions, thus save money and improve safety.

The webinar is free of charge, dedicated to people who want to learn and see a concrete implementation of the UPTIME Predictive Maintenance Platform in a real business case. It is interactive, where you have the opportunity to ask questions to the experts panel and we are happy to receive your feedback.

If you have any questions or comments, please contact us.