Impacto económico de la automatización en procesos de mantenimiento, para la industria manufacturera en Colombia: Una revisión bibliográfica

Abstract

The article is the product of the research Economic Impact of Automation in Maintenance Processes, for the Manufacturing Industry in Colombia, developed at the Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, in 2021. For the build-up of this article, literature review was taken into account as a method to identify, evaluate and synthesize the body of knowledge produced by researchers, academics or practitioners. In this bibliographic review the different tools, techniques and processes of automation in processes regarding industrial maintenance are taken discussed, in addition cases of different companies that have implemented automation technologies in their maintenance management are shown, ultimately statistics and data related to the subject in question focusing special attention on Colombian manufacturing companies will be presented, all this in order to give a panoramic vision of the economic impact of automation immersed in industrial maintenance and concurrently take a glance at a horizon of automation in Colombian manufacturing industries. Although investments in automation technologies have generated profits for companies, these are often high, in addition to costs related to training company staff to properly carry out these processes. It is therefore suggested that companies that desire to start integrating automation technologies into maintenance processes should do so progressively so as not to generate frustrations in relation to the investment. Automation and industrial maintenance have been studied as separate topics, in this article, these two issues are related to the objective of providing solutions to manufacturing companies in the Colombian region. Because automation and industrial maintenance have been topics studied separately, there is little scientific information on automation in maintenance processes.