Maintenance is of necessity for sustaining machinery availability and reliability in order to ensure productivity, product quality, on-time delivery, and safe working environment. The costly maintenance strategies such as corrective maintenance and scheduled maintenance have been progressively replaced by superior maintenance strategies in which condition-based maintenance (CBM) is one of the d...

optimum working life of tractor and farm machinery employed in potato production in hamadan province was assessed through data envelopment analysis. an input oriented model was applied to determine the optimized machinery system. in this model inputs were the lifetime of tractor as well as seven involved machines including moldboard plow, potato planter, chemical fertilizer spreader, tractor mo...

1 IEEEAC paper #1311, Updated September 19, 2002 Abstract— Increasing levels of machinery automation for systems health monitoring are providing operators with larger amounts of raw data. However, transforming massive amounts of data into information useful for effective condition-based maintenance (CBM) remains an arduous task. New technology is needed to continually monitor machinery, to iden...

In order obtain suitable and effective farm machinery performance besides higher crop yield, on time farm machinery field operations are essential. Farm tractors are important machines that used for soil tillage, crop planting and protection. It is even used for harvesting crops in some areas. Thus, any failure in farm tractors influences the series of field operations. Farm managers are usuall...

I propose to consider the question, “Can machines think?” This should begin with definitions of the meaning of the terms “machine” and “think.” The definitions might be framed so as to reflect so far as possible the normal use of the words, but this attitude is dangerous, If the meaning of the words“machine”and “think” are to be found by examining how they are commonly used it is difficult to e...

Seagoing ships transport nearly 90% (International Maritime Organization, in IMO’s contribution to sustainable maritime development, 2012) of the world trade by volume worldwide through a large network logistics companies located different time zones making it lifeline global economy. This makes challenging for shipping run their operations economically ensuring safety life at sea and pollution...

The vibration analysis and condition monitoring technology is based on comparison of measurements obtained with benchmarks suggested by manufacturers or standards. In this case, the references provided by current rules are static and independent of parameters such as age or environmental conditions in which the machine is analyzed. New communication technologies allow the integration of eMainte...

Phosphatidylglycerol (PG) is a ubiquitous component of thylakoid membranes. Experiments with the pgsA mutant of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 defective in biosynthesis of PG have demonstrated an indispensable role of PG in photosynthesis. In the present study, we have investigated the light susceptibility of the pgsA mutant with regard to the maintenance of the photosynthetic mac...