Citation:
A. M. Brintrup, D. C. Ranasinghe, S. Kwan, A. Parlikad, K. Owens, Roadmap to Self-Serving Assets in Civil Aerospace, Proceedings of the 1st CIRP Industrial Product-Service Systems (IPS2) Conference, Cranfield University, 1-2 April 2009, pp323
Abstract:
The “intelligent object” paradigm first occurred in holonic manufacturing, where objects managed their
production. The “self-serving asset” is a further evolution of those early concepts from manufacturing to
usage phase. The usage phase bestows a different set of requirements including maximisation of the
asset’s life-in-service and benefits to the asset’s stakeholders. Addressing these requirements with a selfserving
asset may lead to more streamlined decision-making in service operations, reduce erroneous or
suboptimal decisions, and enable condition-based maintenance. We present a future direction for service
systems by considering self-serving assets in the aerospace industry, and outline a technology roadmap for
the transformation.