The Importance of Asset Management and Hidden Factory for Integrated Planning

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to investigate in Asset Management and the metaphor “hidden factory” and evaluate to what extent this is of importance for Integrated Planning (IPL). Integrated Planning is facing the challenges in the industry with “silo thinking”, which hinders the organisation to optimise the cooperation between the different functions in the production system, e.g. the cooperation between production planning and maintenance planning. The result shows that there are indeed elements both in Asset Management and from the hidden factory concept that supports the IPL concept. In particular it has been proposed specific KPIs and a dashboard for the planners in IPL.