Cannibalization policies: adoption in the maintenance of fleet systems

Fleet systems are considered complex due to the interaction between their units and components. Maintenance management systems face various challenges to achieve acceptable availability and reliability rates at a reasonable cost. A critical task for making maintenance decisions is understanding the system requirements to select maintenance policies appropriate for the actual and future system state. When there is a replacement shortage in a fleet system, and it is impossible to supply new spare parts quickly, cannibalization policies can mitigate this scarcity via the interchange of components. However, this procedure presents the maintenance manager with different evaluation effects, such as increased maintenance hours, decreased system reliability rate, and unavailability in some units. Finding an equilibrium between the benefits and risks has caught the attention of researchers. This work gathers diverse proposals for applying cannibalization policies and the effects that arise from using them. Models, methods, tools, and identified gaps in understanding what parameters of the components and environments of the fleet systems favor cannibalization are discussed

Arquitectura Orientada a Servicios – SOA, aplicada a la industria

Article outcome research. Service Oriented Architecture SOA is a concept created primarily to meet business objectives, reduce implementation costs, offer innovative services to customers and gain agility to adapt to changing environments. Currently, this paradigm has transcended beyond computing to become a useful tool in industry applications. Its implementation has led to business integration processes are provided in conceiving devices manufacturing and services and place them at the same level of operations related to business logistics.Artículo resultado de investigación. La Arquitectura Orientada a Servicios –SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) es un concepto creado principalmente para satisfacer los objetivos de negocio, reducir los costos de implementación, ofrecer innovación de servicios a clientes y obtener agilidad de adaptación ante cambios del entorno. Actualmente, este paradigma ha trascendido más allá de aplicaciones informáticas para convertirse en una herramienta útil en la industria. Su aplicación ha llevado a que se faciliten los procesos de integración empresarial al concebir los dispositivos de fabricación como servicios y situarlos al mismo nivel de las operaciones relacionadas con la logística empresarial