efficient and on-time maintenance plays a crucial role inreducing cost and increasing the market share of an industrial unit. preventivemaintenance is a broad term that encompasses a set of activitiesaimed at improving the overall reliability and availability of a systembefore machinery breakdown. the previous studies have addressed thescheduling of preventive maintenance. these studies have co...

Taguchi’s robust parameter design has been widely applied to a variety of quality engineering problems; however, it is unable to deal with dynamic multiresponse owing to the increasing complexity of the product or design process. This study incorporates desirability functions into a hybrid neural network/genetic algorithm approach to optimize the parameter design of dynamic multiresponses with ...

One of the most important subjects of the high-gain FEL engineering is the calculation of the gain length, and fitting formulas are frequently used for this purpose. Here we refer to Ming Xie fitting formulas [1] and fitting formulas for optimized FEL written down in an explicit form in terms of the electron beam and undulator parameters [2]. In this paper we perform generalization of these fit...

Electrical machines are the hearts of many appliances, industrial equipment and systems. In the context of global sustainability, they must fulfill various requirements, not only physically and technologically but also environmentally. Therefore, their design optimization process becomes more and more complex as more engineering disciplines/domains and constraints are involved, such as electrom...

OEMs and operators of complex mission/safety critical systems are faced with the requirement to mitigate design and performance risks and their economic consequences. A key issue for any engineering organization is the integrity of the analysis that is used to support significant commercial decisions. Analysis outputs used to establish or validate performance criteria should have an appropriate...

In certain manufacturing processes, product quality is characterized by spatial profiles, and such profiles are expected to meet specific shape requirements. As profile shapes are affected by process conditions, properly adjusted process variables are expected to help improve profile quality. This work aims to achieve desired shapes of profiles that are sensitive to the variation of noise facto...