Objective: Majorproducers consider quality as a major criterion in decision making.Quality characteristics are affected by maintenance and repair decisions. In this study, a model is developed to determine significant measurements of production equipment affecting the quality of a continuous product to identify which measurements are more critical in terms of quality. Methods: Diversity of par...

Proactive maintenance is a solution to increase the availability of the production equipment in the process industry. It involves online condition monitoring of field devices and reliably diagnosing the reason behind any abnormal behaviour, thus helping to rationalise maintenance operations. Making the information of different industrial sites available for analysis, significant improvements co...

Condition monitoring as part of an effective condition based maintenance has long been accepted in the academic and industrial world, 25 COMADEM conferences are proof of that. Various methods, algorithms, and tools have been developed to monitor the condition, detect faults, or predict the remaining useful life. Furthermore, there are methods available supporting the engineer to choose the appr...

In industries machine maintenance is used in order to avoid untimely machine fails as well as to improve production effectiveness. This research regards a permutation flow shop scheduling problem with aging and learning effects considering maintenance process. In this study, it is assumed that each machine may be subject to at most one maintenance activity during the planning horizon. The objec...

In human-machine systems, human activities are mainly oriented toward decision-making, encompassing monitoring and fault detection, fault anticipation, diagnosis and prognosis, and fault prevention and recovery. The objectives of this decision-making are related to human-machine system performance (production quantity and quality) as well as to overall system safety. In this context, human oper...

Wayside condition monitoring systems are efficient tools for monitoring vehicle components, such as brake shoes and wheels. Apart from providing frequent measurements for trending and maintenance purposes these systems also identify critical events for immediate action. The systems discussed in this paper are based on machine vision technology, which not only provides accurate measurements but ...

The quality of maintenance is an important parameter in the performance of industrial production plants. Good monitoring of the deterioration in rotating machinery can result in reduced maintenance costs by minimizing the number of bad judgments and decreasing in the number of spare parts. An effective system of maintenance should be able to monitor parameters such as vibration, temperature, oi...