SMART-GRIP it offers a SW suite that includes the Maintenance Schedule Optimization (MSO) tool, which allows the best selection of strategy and maintenance policies, the calculation of the optimal maintenance program, the minimization of the LCC (Life Cycle Cost) and the maximization of operational availability, through the implementation of a decision-making process based on historical data and the Matchmaking tool, an intuitive and easy-to-use means of selecting robotic equipment.
People dealing with maintenance problems should always consider the “” side effects of their choices and the resulting unexpected downtime, for example due to the recovery of a part, to the review of production planning, missed deadlines and so on.
The SW suite by SMART-GRIP it allows maintenance tasks to be planned well in advance, improving the efficiency of companies and lowering maintenance-related costs.
Furthermore, you can customize the SW suite for specific industrial settings through GUI customization, set up other user-dependent features such as models and/or cost equations, as well as the implementation of dedicated adaptation plugins, in order to address cross-sector maintenance issues (ad e.g. in the Machine Tools sectors (MT)/Robotics, Automotive, Energy and other industrial sectors).
Maintenance teams are also becoming increasingly autonomous in factories and Robotics is increasingly available to the end user, with the result that the former always need direct contact with the latter's suppliers.
The objectives of the project SMART-GRIP they are therefore twofold.
On the one hand, support potential customers in choosing robotic grippers suited to their needs; on the other, provide a complementary tool to support the decision-making level of maintenance management, providing a SW suite integrated for cost- and environmental efficient selection of maintenance work strategies and policies throughout the life cycle.
Manufacturing sees a paradigm shift from maintenance execution-to-failure (repair after break), through scheduled maintenance (repair before it breaks), to conditional maintenance (evaluate the deterioration of the machine, calculate its remaining useful life and perform maintenance when necessary).
SMART-GRIP it therefore aims to actively support this positive change (less waste and energy consumption) with its new optimization approach which, taking advantage of available maintenance data, it can determine a maintenance plan with lower costs and environmental impact.