A Journey from an Unstructured Maintenance Department to Relying on Digital Twins

by Andy Reissmann, Cambrica Corp.

Dusobox embarked on a journey to implement a reliability-based maintenance system, organized their spare parts department and created digital twins of their equipment and parts. Cambrica guided them through that process and added a technical knowledge management layer to complete the process.

Learning takeaways:

1. Starting with creating a searchable digital library of all technical documentation is essential.
2. Gaining insights into supply chain, parts and breakdown history, obsolescence, and having mobile access to digital media while performing a maintenance job has proven to create huge dollar savings for the business.
3. A technical knowledge layer provides the context, not just data, to migrate towards a predictive maintenance approach.