industrial organizations are complex systems` where the interactions among the various functions such as sales, distribution, manufacturing, materials, finance, human resources and maintenance have to be man-aged towards a common purpose of delivering the customers satisfaction. however, since most of these or-ganizations have a `functional structure`, each function or department works towards ...

Abstract Nowadays, new challenges around increasing production quality and productivity, decreasing energy consumption, are growing in the manufacturing industry. In order to tackle these challenges, it is of vital importance monitor health critical components. machine tool sector, one main aspects wear cutting tools, as affects directly fulfillment tolerances, scrap, etc. Besides, prediction r...

This paper introduces a model to make decision on the maintenance of a mechanical component subject to condition monitoring. A stochastic model is used to determine what maintenance action should be taken at a monitoring check and the follow up inspection times. The condition of component has a stochastic relation with measurements. A new state space model is developed and used, to predict the ...

The field of intelligent products is on the advance. Nowadays, products are still generally considered in terms of function and design. Thereby it is neglected that enhanced capabilities of products initiate a rethinking of conventional approaches for production or supply chain control, fault detection, lifecycle monitoring or part authentication and protection against counterfeit products. In ...

For the aim of system health management, equipment and components are inspected periodically by manual or automatic systems to monitor their condition and to identify their level of degradation. A decision is then taken regarding replacement or maintenance, and this is based upon an analysis of the monitored data. In this view maintenance is carried out when a measurable machine condition shows...

This paper presents a concept for a next generation Decision Support System (DSS) for maintenenance management. Such a system will integrate information from other systems dedicated to process control, condition monitoring, diagnosis, maintenance planning, and production planning. The main challenge is to support a maintenance planner in the composition of task schedules, where the focus is on ...

Maintenance helps to extend equipment life by improving its condition and avoiding catastrophic failures. Appropriate model or mechanism is, thus, needed to quantify system availability vis-a-vis a given maintenance strategy, which will assist in decision-making for optimal utilization of maintenance resources. This paper deals with semi-Markov process (SMP) modeling for steady state availabili...

This study presents results from the implementation and testing of an automated monitoring system for a bioethanol production process using MLP-based soft-sensors (MLP-SS). The system is based on an array of primary sensor, a communication module and a monitoring and data acquisition subsystem. This integrated framework provides a real-time monitoring solution, which is one of the most importan...