Transformation towards a Smart Maintenance Factory: The Case of a Vessel Maintenance Depot

Transformation towards a Smart Maintenance Factory: The Case of a Vessel Maintenance Depot

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The conceptualization and framework of smart factories have been intensively studied in previous studies, and the extension Rolling Trays to various business areas has been suggested as a future research direction.This paper proposes a method for extending the smart factory concept in the ship building phase to the ship servicing phase through actual examples.In order to expand the study, we identified the differences between manufacturing Drinks and maintenance.We proposed a smart transformation procedure, framework, and architecture of a smart maintenance factory.The transformation was a large-scale operation for the entire factory beyond simply applying a single process or specific technology.

The transformations were presented through a vessel maintenance depot case and the effects of improvements were discussed.