In production plants, monitoring and maintaining industrial processes and emergency shutdowns are not straightforward tasks due to the large number of events and alarms which are triggered during the plant shutdown process. It is also vitally important to provide decision support to stakeholders for efficient and effective monitoring and maintenance of production process. This paper presents a ...

Preventive maintenance is the essential part of many maintenance plans. From the production point of view, the flexibility of the maintenance intervals enhances the manufacturing efficiency. On the contrary, the maintenance departments tend to know the timing of the long term maintenance plans as certain as possible. In a single-machine production environment, this paper proposes a simulation–o...

The manual creation and maintenance of appropriate behavior models is a key problem of model-based development for technical systems such as vehicles or production systems. Currently, two main approaches are considered promising to overcome this bottleneck: (a) The fields of software and system engineering try to develop better methods and tools to synthesize models manually. (b) The field of m...

This article aims to show the problem of Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) monitoring and performance measurement on a case study done in a small company. Losses occur during the production process and the ways of detecting them must be analyzed. The methodology for calculating total Overall Equipment Effectiveness is followed while applying monitoring tools. Some existing methods used for ...

Machine service and maintenance is an intricate specialist task and machine builders often have to provide worldwide service at short notice. Machine builders would benefit enormously from the possibility to monitor and diagnose equipment operating at distant locations – both for condition-based preventive maintenance and for diagnostic purposes before flying in qualified maintenance personnel ...

Abstract With the increasing requirements on machine tools such as higher complexity, individuality and digitization, their maintenance becomes also more complex, which increases time consumption demands special knowledge. The engineer can be supported in this process using Augmented Reality (AR) technology, mobile devices suitable production data. This requires integration adaptation of docume...

In the industrial environment a short down-time of computer numerical control (CNC) machine tools is increasingly important. One approach to counter the loss of production is to make the machines more reliable, thereby reducing their times of non-use. Another is to enable machine operators to locate and to remove machine faults and their causes themselves, in order to reduce delay until mainten...

In industrial environment, data generated during equipment maintenance and monitoring activities has become increasingly overwhelming. Data mining presents an opportunity to increase significantly the rate at which the volume of data can be turned into useful information. This paper presents an architecture designed to gather data generated in industrial units on their maintenance activities, a...