Repair and maintenance costs are the most important factors affecting decision making about substituting agricultural machineries. This decision is made based on the economic life (time) of machineries. In this rese...Repair and maintenance costs are the most important factors affecting decision making about substituting agricultural machineries. This decision is made based on the economic life (time) of machineries. In this research, condition monitoring of MF285 and MF399 tractors was performed using engine oil analysis to find the optimum life time of tractor substitution in comparison with the breakdown maintenance method in Iran. All recorded information about fixed and variable costs were selected as data base and analyzed. Data were divided (classified) based on period of annual working time. Using power regression analysis led to find mathematical models for the optimum time life definition. Cumulative working time (X) was selected as independent and cumulative costs based on definite percent of initial price (Y) was considered as dependent variable and a power law equation was found to express the costs of both MF399 and MF285 tractors as a function of working time. Results showed that in CM method, average of economic life was 13 and 11 years for MF399 and MF285, respectively. It was also found that in BM method, economic life wasl0 and 8.5 years for MF399 and MF285, respectively.展开更多
Condition monitoring is implementation of the advanced diagnostic techniques to reduce downtime and to increase the efficiency and reliability.The research is for determining the usage of advanced techniques like Vibr...Condition monitoring is implementation of the advanced diagnostic techniques to reduce downtime and to increase the efficiency and reliability.The research is for determining the usage of advanced techniques like Vibration analysis,Oil analysis and Thermography to diagnose ensuing problems of the Plant and Machinery at an early stage and plan to take corrective and preventive actions to eliminate the forthcoming breakdown and enhancing the reliability of the system.Nowadays,the most of the industries have adopted the condition monitoring techniques as a part of support system to the basic maintenance strategies.Major condition monitoring technique they follow is Vibration Spectrum Analysis,which can detect faults at a very early stage.However implementation of other techniques like Oil analysis or Ferrography,Thermography etc.can further enhance the data interpretation as they would detect the source of abnormality at much early stage thus providing us with a longer lead time to plan and take the corrective actions.In Large Captive Power Plants and Aluminium Smelters,Integrated Condition Monitoring techniques play an important role as stoppage of primary system and its auxiliaries(boiler,steam turbine,generator,coal and ash handling plants etc.)results into the stoppage of the entire plant,which in turn leads to loss of productivity.From economical and operational point of view,it is desirable to ensure optimum level of system availability.展开更多
This paper focuses on the creation of a dynamic probabilistic model which simulates deterioration trends of a marine engine lubricationsystem. The approach is based on risk and the implementation is achieved through a...This paper focuses on the creation of a dynamic probabilistic model which simulates deterioration trends of a marine engine lubricationsystem. The approach is based on risk and the implementation is achieved through a dynamic Bayesian network (dBN).Risk can be useful for decision making, while dBNs are a powerful tool for risk modelling and prediction models. The model takesinto account deterioration of engine components, oil degradation and the off-line condition monitoring technique of oil analysis, inthe context of predictive maintenance. The paper aims to efficiently predict probability evolution for main engine lubrication failureand to decide upon the most beneficial schemes from a variety of lubrication oil analysis interval schemes by introducing monetarycosts and producing the risk model. Real data and respective analysis, along with expert elicitation, are utilized for achieving modelquantification, while themodel is materialized through a code in the Matlab environment. Results from the probabilistic model showa realistic simulation for the system and indicate the obvious, that with more frequent oil analyses and respective maintenance orrepairs, the probability of failure drops significantly. However, the results from the risk model highlight that the costs can redefinescheme suggestions, as they can correspond to low probabilities of failure but also to higher costs. A two-month interval scheme issuggested, in contrast to the most preferred practice among shipping companies of a three-month interval. The developed model isin general identified as a failure prediction tool focusing on marine engine lubrication failure.展开更多
Industry 4.0 has become a reality by fusing the Industrial Internet of Things(IIoT)and Artificial Intelligence(AI),providing huge opportunities in the way manufacturing companies operate.However,the adoption of this p...Industry 4.0 has become a reality by fusing the Industrial Internet of Things(IIoT)and Artificial Intelligence(AI),providing huge opportunities in the way manufacturing companies operate.However,the adoption of this paradigm shift,particularly in the field of smart factories and production,is still in its infancy,suffering from various issues,such as the lack of high-quality data,data with high-class imbalance,or poor diversity leading to inaccurate AI models.However,data is severely fragmented across different silos owned by several parties for a range of reasons,such as compliance and legal concerns,preventing discovery and insight-driven IIoT innovation.Notably,valuable and even vital information often remains unutilized as the rise and adoption of AI and IoT in parallel with the concerns and challenges associated with privacy and security.This adversely influences interand intra-organization collaborative use of IIoT data.To tackle these challenges,this article leverages emerging multi-party technologies,privacy-enhancing techniques(e.g.,Federated Learning),and AI approaches to present a holistic,decentralized architecture to form a foundation and cradle for a cross-company collaboration platform and a federated data space to tackle the creeping fragmented data landscape.Moreover,to evaluate the efficiency of the proposed reference model,a collaborative predictive diagnostics and maintenance case study is mapped to an edge-enabled IIoT architecture.Experimental results show the potential advantages of using the proposed approach for multi-party applications accelerating sovereign data sharing through Findable,Accessible,Interoperable,and Reusable(FAIR)principles.展开更多
文摘Repair and maintenance costs are the most important factors affecting decision making about substituting agricultural machineries. This decision is made based on the economic life (time) of machineries. In this research, condition monitoring of MF285 and MF399 tractors was performed using engine oil analysis to find the optimum life time of tractor substitution in comparison with the breakdown maintenance method in Iran. All recorded information about fixed and variable costs were selected as data base and analyzed. Data were divided (classified) based on period of annual working time. Using power regression analysis led to find mathematical models for the optimum time life definition. Cumulative working time (X) was selected as independent and cumulative costs based on definite percent of initial price (Y) was considered as dependent variable and a power law equation was found to express the costs of both MF399 and MF285 tractors as a function of working time. Results showed that in CM method, average of economic life was 13 and 11 years for MF399 and MF285, respectively. It was also found that in BM method, economic life wasl0 and 8.5 years for MF399 and MF285, respectively.
文摘Condition monitoring is implementation of the advanced diagnostic techniques to reduce downtime and to increase the efficiency and reliability.The research is for determining the usage of advanced techniques like Vibration analysis,Oil analysis and Thermography to diagnose ensuing problems of the Plant and Machinery at an early stage and plan to take corrective and preventive actions to eliminate the forthcoming breakdown and enhancing the reliability of the system.Nowadays,the most of the industries have adopted the condition monitoring techniques as a part of support system to the basic maintenance strategies.Major condition monitoring technique they follow is Vibration Spectrum Analysis,which can detect faults at a very early stage.However implementation of other techniques like Oil analysis or Ferrography,Thermography etc.can further enhance the data interpretation as they would detect the source of abnormality at much early stage thus providing us with a longer lead time to plan and take the corrective actions.In Large Captive Power Plants and Aluminium Smelters,Integrated Condition Monitoring techniques play an important role as stoppage of primary system and its auxiliaries(boiler,steam turbine,generator,coal and ash handling plants etc.)results into the stoppage of the entire plant,which in turn leads to loss of productivity.From economical and operational point of view,it is desirable to ensure optimum level of system availability.
文摘This paper focuses on the creation of a dynamic probabilistic model which simulates deterioration trends of a marine engine lubricationsystem. The approach is based on risk and the implementation is achieved through a dynamic Bayesian network (dBN).Risk can be useful for decision making, while dBNs are a powerful tool for risk modelling and prediction models. The model takesinto account deterioration of engine components, oil degradation and the off-line condition monitoring technique of oil analysis, inthe context of predictive maintenance. The paper aims to efficiently predict probability evolution for main engine lubrication failureand to decide upon the most beneficial schemes from a variety of lubrication oil analysis interval schemes by introducing monetarycosts and producing the risk model. Real data and respective analysis, along with expert elicitation, are utilized for achieving modelquantification, while themodel is materialized through a code in the Matlab environment. Results from the probabilistic model showa realistic simulation for the system and indicate the obvious, that with more frequent oil analyses and respective maintenance orrepairs, the probability of failure drops significantly. However, the results from the risk model highlight that the costs can redefinescheme suggestions, as they can correspond to low probabilities of failure but also to higher costs. A two-month interval scheme issuggested, in contrast to the most preferred practice among shipping companies of a three-month interval. The developed model isin general identified as a failure prediction tool focusing on marine engine lubrication failure.
文摘Industry 4.0 has become a reality by fusing the Industrial Internet of Things(IIoT)and Artificial Intelligence(AI),providing huge opportunities in the way manufacturing companies operate.However,the adoption of this paradigm shift,particularly in the field of smart factories and production,is still in its infancy,suffering from various issues,such as the lack of high-quality data,data with high-class imbalance,or poor diversity leading to inaccurate AI models.However,data is severely fragmented across different silos owned by several parties for a range of reasons,such as compliance and legal concerns,preventing discovery and insight-driven IIoT innovation.Notably,valuable and even vital information often remains unutilized as the rise and adoption of AI and IoT in parallel with the concerns and challenges associated with privacy and security.This adversely influences interand intra-organization collaborative use of IIoT data.To tackle these challenges,this article leverages emerging multi-party technologies,privacy-enhancing techniques(e.g.,Federated Learning),and AI approaches to present a holistic,decentralized architecture to form a foundation and cradle for a cross-company collaboration platform and a federated data space to tackle the creeping fragmented data landscape.Moreover,to evaluate the efficiency of the proposed reference model,a collaborative predictive diagnostics and maintenance case study is mapped to an edge-enabled IIoT architecture.Experimental results show the potential advantages of using the proposed approach for multi-party applications accelerating sovereign data sharing through Findable,Accessible,Interoperable,and Reusable(FAIR)principles.