The Initiation of Programmable Control Unit for Proactive Maintenance Approach: Pilot Project in Case Study of High Bay Lighting System of Extension Area in Experimental Hall: Synchrotron Light Research Institute (Public Organization), Thailand

Proactive maintenance is a maintenance strategy that aims to correct root cause of failure and breakdown caused by underlying equipment conditions. Breakdown can be avoided by monitoring equipment deterioration, and root cause of failure can be found by using empirical evidence of condition monitoring and data-driven engineering approach. Proactive maintenance corresponds to sustainable development goals set up by the United Nation (UN). To achieve this goal, resources is utilized efficiently. This manuscript reports the case study of resource utilization within Synchrotron Light Research Institute (SLRI) laboratory. In role of international central laboratory, the SLRI organization highly uses resource consumptions to produce synchrotron light to service scientist and researcher. There is novel project aimed to support proactive maintenance approach by developing the Programmable Control Unit (PCU) to harvest insight data from target equipment. The harvested data can be used as patterns for learning and analysis process of proactive maintenance. The high bay lighting system is target equipment which operation within experimental hall of the SLRI laboratory. This manuscript is the first study of PCU implementation into the high bay lighting system in a part of extension area. Unique details of design and implementation method are explained in this document. All findings, pros and cons are reported. Finally, suggestions for further step of proactive maintenance approach are made.