Emerging technologies, e.g. web services and open sourcesoftware, are rapidly adopted in IT solutions, which are based onnew business logics such as SOA and SaaS. But is industry readyto utilise these solutions? The aim with this paper is to describecurrent IT practices within maintenance in Swedish industry, andto outline the future possible developments. The study is formedas a web-based questionnaire survey addressed to plants wherethe maintenance is performed in-house. 71 responses werereceived of 196 questionnaires sent.We find that the main part of the participants of this studyrepresents organisations that traditionally would be characterisedas mature regarding IT use. The IT practices are characterised byhigh use of business specific IT solutions, low use of companywide IT solutions and low IT intensity. The ownership of IT is tohigh extent tied to the maintenance function and the client-serverarchitecture is dominating. The findings imply that the focus of ITis for vertical (functional) support rather than horizontal ornetwork support, and a decentralised IT governance form.

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Maintenance IT practices in Swedish industriy

Several studies have been carried out for describing the functionality and use of computerised maintenance management systems. A major drawback of these studies is that they do not reveal the actual support for maintenance management. To describe the full situation, the gaps between required support and actual support have to be determined. The gaps are of two kinds: 1) Between the functionality included in the IT system and the functionality required, and 2) Between the functionality included in the IT system and the functionality actually used. To reach a better understanding of the utilisation of IT in maintenance management, the existence of these gaps must be further explored. In this paper, we will study the existence of functionality gaps in maintenance management IT applications using data from a web-based questionnaire survey conducted in Swedish industry. Results show that the IT systems in general provide good support for maintenance management, thus low degree of functionality gaps. However, most commonly unused function was failure cause and consequence analysis and the most commonly unused information was maintenance improvement suggestions. When comparing the results with respect to type of IT system used, some significant differences was revealed, indicating that ERPsystems and production systems do not include all required information for maintenance management. Next step will be to further study the reasons behind the differences in gaps by conducting additional interviews.

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Analysing it functionality gaps for maintenance management

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