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How can AI –Artificial Intelligence- Transform Maintenance?

Presenter: Ahmed Rezika
Coach - Trainer, SimpleWays OÜ
Description:
An Intelligent machine can sense its environment, take a decision and apply an action or give a recommendation. How this can transform maintenance? With every Industrial Revolution, Maintenance tools and strategies grow to provide the needed service for this industrial era. Now what shall we do with the Augmented reality and other technologies that Industry 4.0 introduces in the production environment??! It is important to understand what AI -Artificial Intelligence in details is because it is currently part of our work and life even if we do not realize this. When we understand how AI works, we can use it as our ally. Otherwise, we shall resist its existence specially when it starts to give recommendations and report of what went good and what went bad. AI is a title frequently applied to the project of developing systems with the intellectual similar to those of humans, such as the ability to reason, discover meaning, generalize, or learn from past experience. The human maintenance team applies its intellectual process at every situation it encounters. This intellectual process includes the ability to reason, discover meaning, generalize, or learn from experience. How AI does this? It is all based on software and Algorithms. There are two (2) ways for the software to yield intelligent advices or actions. You either add to it all the possible solutions of a problem and the software searches through all possibilities to find a one matching to this situation, then returns the stored actions for this possibility. Alternatively, the other way is to let the algorithms of the intelligent software infer some reasoning based on the inputs then solve the problem. . Let us relate this to maintenance.
About the Presenter:

Recently, I had established SimpleWays OÜ to fulfill my vision of supporting maintenance teams and maintenance managers to transform maintenance business unit to an added-value to the organization. At SimpleWays we provide consultancy and training for individuals and groups to transcend the maintenance perception. I had reached this step on my journey in maintenance after almost 25 years of hands-on experience in projects and maintenance setup and management.
The last mega project was establishing a Steel Meltshopfor Rajhisteel company in Saudi Arabia. I had worked there for 14 years. We had started as a project team of 4 members to fulfill the dream of the owner to establish a state of the art steel plant in the middle of the desert in Jeddah - Saudi Arabia. It was a green field project and a success story for all the team members. The 1 Million ton Steel Meltshop started operation in Jan 2007. Since then I had managed the electrical power supply and distribution together with the plants maintenance management. We had upgraded the Meltshop and added Rebar Rolling Mills to it to increase the production capabilities to near 2 million Ton per year.
Before that I worked for 3 years in Egypt - Sinai Grey Cement project. We had commissioned the electrical controls and automation system in 2001 then I was appointed as an Instrumentation and Automation Team Supervisor for 2 years.
I had started my career in Egypt EZDK on 1995, as a maintenance engineer for the Japanese Electric arc furnaces. Then we upgraded the Japanese technology from 1980's with 1990's latest German Technology from MAN-GHH. It was a major transformation for the maintenance team and I am proud to be part of this technological transformation.
Through all my career I was part of upgrade or green field projects. This was followed by managing the maintenance team to cope with the new technologies.
I had presented some of these experiences in PEMAC MAINTRAIN 2015 and 2016 conferences.
Along my career path I enjoyed mixing the practice and education that's why I was had gained 3 important certifications. I am a PMP certified from PMI (PMP® Number: 1495754), MMP certified from PEMAC (MMP Certificate # 1334) and, CMRP certified(SMRP ID: 158448).
The mix between theory and practice inspired me to share my insights on a maintenance blog I had created at https://simpleways.life/blog/.