We present HoloMiracle, a system that enables operators of industrial equipment and beyond to pose queries about physical, virtual, regulatory, and functional relationships between components of the equipment and that visualizes the responses to their queries in-situ, as a holographic overlay. We report on HoloMiracle’s system architecture and discuss a concrete use case in the automotive manuf...

Rotating equipment is the beating heart of nearly all industrial plants and specifically plays a vital role in oil and power industries. In spite of all research which has been carried out so far to discover accurate dynamics of this kind of equipment, there are still many unknown and unexpected problems on operational sites which need to be solved in order to approach to the optimal operationa...

In view of the very complex equipment making up the LHC machine and its many ancillary subsystems, equipment maintenance policies will play a primordial role to ensure an optimal availability. As access to most of the machine systems is strictly regulated, maintenance interventions will require global co-ordination and collaboration from both CERN equipment groups and industrial support teams. ...

Industrial service and maintenance is by necessity a mobile activity, and the aim of the technology reported is towards improving automated support for the technician in this endeavor. As such, a framework was developed called PARIS (PDA-based Augmented Reality Integrating Speech) that executes entirely on a commercially available PDA equipped with a small camera and wireless support. Real-time...

Interactions between natural events and industrial installations may lead to dangerous phenomena such as: fires, explosions, or toxic dispersions. The industrial sector is often unprepared for these Natech events, increasing its vulnerability. The final purpose of this study is to help industrial facilities to decrease their vulnerability to accidents triggered by floods. In order to attain thi...

Condition monitoring is currently widely used for industrial equipment to allow predictive maintenance of the equipment. For power electronic converters there currently is no generally accepted and widely deployed condition monitoring method. In this paper the authors investigate the benefits and desirability of condition monitoring.

Section 1: Introduction Analog technology is very important in commercial and industrial instruments and systems – such as measuring instruments and automatic control systems -that have analog inputs and outputs. Consumer equipment drives demand for improvements in analog circuit performance, and this naturally leads to performance improvements in commercial and industrial equipment. Fig.1 show...

The development of new embedded algorithms for automation and control of industrial equipment usually requires the use of real-time testing. However, the equipment required is often expensive, which means that such tests are often not viable. The objective of this work was therefore to develop an embedded platform for the distributed real-time simulation of dynamic systems. This platform, calle...

Enclosed cab filtration systems are typically used on mobile mining equipment to reduce miners' exposure to airborne dust generated during mining operations. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Office of Mine Safety and Health Research (OMSHR) has recently worked with a mining equipment manufacturer to examine a new cab filtration system design for underground indu...