Integrating maintenance in a collaborative design method for equipments in wester Africa : cas of Burkina Faso

Abstract

To provide food equipment to users of Western African Countries (WAC) it is required to take into account, since the phases of design, maintenance aspects as a function of specificities of the socio-technical and economic context of these countries. The proposal was elaborated using concepts from the industrial engineering developed in North-eastern countries, analysis of the traditional practices of maintenance in the food processing small scale units of Burkina Faso, and experimentation of a tool for integration of maintenance by a local team made up of designers, users and actors of maintenance. For this purpose, three tools and one approach have been proposed. The tools are: a model of analysis and representation of existing maintenance network, a specification document allowing capitalization of technical data and a set of design rules oriented maintenance as DFX tools. The approach of design oriented maintenance in the WAC allows the use of these three tools by a multi-competences team. The experimentation in Benin by a local design team showed the applicability of these tools.