Abstract
The expanding global competition, emerging new technologies and improved communication have increased customers expectation of full satisfaction with the automotive that they purchase. The paper describes the transition from traditional reactionary and time-based automotive maintenance policies to one that delivers maintenance activities only upon evidence of need. Condition based maintenance architecture are analyzed, mathematical apparatus used for prognosis is presented together with experimental results obtained for real automotive case. Also, considering that car manufacturers are continuously examining ways to reduce logistics cost and just-in-time logistics principles become widely adopted, the impact of new maintenance approach on this is studied.
Keywords: maintenance policies, condition based maintenance, prognosis, model based method, automotive logistics