At a first glance low cost automation could be regarded as cheap hardware (sensors, actuators and controller). That is of course an important point to consider. But today we are looking for a cost effective life cycle of an automation system: design, production, operation, maintenance, refitting or recycling, and human skill is also an important factor. Despite relative expensive components the...

Efficiently, tracking information related to components, materials and equipment from the production/construction phase to operation and maintenance is a challenge in the industries. The industry environment is a natural fit for generating and utilizing instance-level data for decision support. Advanced electronic identification and data storage technologies e.g. radio frequency identification ...

The translational axis is one of the most important subsystems in modern machine tools, as its degradation may result in the loss of the product qualification and lower the control precision. Condition-based maintenance (CBM) has been considered as one of the advanced maintenance schemes to achieve effective, reliable and cost-effective operation of machine systems, however, current vibration-b...

Lean maintenance concept is crucial to increase the reliability and availability of equipment in manufacturing companies. Due elimination losses processes this reduce number unplanned downtime unexpected failures, simultaneously influence a company’s operational economic performance. Despite widespread use lean maintenance, there no structured approach support choice methods tools used for func...

Coordination and harmony between different departments of a company can be an important factor in achieving competitive advantage if the company corrects alignment between strategies of different departments. This paper presents an integrated decision model based on recent advances of geometric programming technique. The demand of a product considers as a power function of factors such as produ...

In this paper we report on a predictive maintenance use cases using Provalet rule agents for implementing expressive rule-based streaming analytics and decision logic on top of online machine learning prediction models, which are dynamically applied to the streaming data coming from on-board asset monitoring sensors. Provalets are component-based mobile agents for rule-based inference analytics...

Nowadays, production systems seek to integrate production and maintenance activities. An effective maintenance plan can improve maintenance stability and system performance. Machines that stop for repairing operation impose a high cost on the system. On the other hand, there are always some intangible situations during a production process in which repairing activities can be carried out. If th...