MODE - Maintenance on Demand
Overview
Background & policy context:
Vehicle downtime represents an important source of expenses. For the vehicle manufactures to ensure a certain level of vehicle uptime, it is necessary to have precise knowledge of the vehicle's health state and to minimise maintenance time.
Objectives:
Research in the field of condition monitoring and prediction of the remaining life time of vehicle components, will give an accurate view of the vehicle health status. This information can result in a dynamic maintenance planning, maintenance on the fly and repair on the fly. Research activities in the field of capturing work loads and operational constraints will be used to analyse vehicle configuration, operating conditions and vehicle usage.
The MODE project aims to increase transport competitiveness by increasing the vehicle uptime. Proposing a global uptime based transport solution will help to maintain vehicles at their optimal condition. It will contribute to CO2 emission reduction thanks to a more relevant monitoring of vehicle components health status and remaining life time. This obviously includes some important engine and transmission items.
Methodology:
Vehicle uptime depends on the ability to decrease 'failure' time. Even if part of this failure time is dedicated to servicing done by technicians, the other part mainly concerns wasted time (waiting for diagnostic technician, waiting for parts, waiting for payment procedures, etc).
Providing the right information (i.e. description of failure cause, vehicle location) will suppress the major part of this wasted time. Moreover, indirect consequences could be the reduction of congestion and accidents (by avoiding long period of immobilisation on the roadside).
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