Intelligent Maintenance

HARSH

CHAUHAN
GURUCHARAN SINGH
RALLHAN
DANIEL LAUREANO

Overview

RESOURCE

AUTHORS

Intelligent Maintenance Systems and Predictive

Productivity Vision and Perspectives.

Dr. Jay Lee

Director, NSF Industry/University Cooperative
Research Center on Intelligent Maintenance
Systems (IMS) Center.

ELECTRONIC ACCESS

www.imscenter.net

Agenda

INTRODUCTION

VISION

EXAMPLE OF A BOILER

CONDITIONAL BASED MAINTANENCE

MODERN COMPUTING & COMMUNICATION TECHNILOGY

IMS SYSTEM

SCOPE

CONCLUSION

INTRODUCTION

Intelligent Maintenance is a Technique

in which modern computing
&Communication technologies and
Machines are fixed with the sensors and
are connected through network enable
their performance is monitored in their
actual working environment.

...INTRODUCTION

IMS technologies help to predict and

forecast equipment performance, so
as to achieve near-zero break-down
status.

Intelligent maintenance systems

(IMS) aim to transform maintenance
into predictive reliability.

VISION

The vision for the Center for

Intelligent Maintenance Systems is
to enable products and systems to
achieve and sustain near-zero
breakdown performance, and
ultimately transform the traditional
maintenance practices from "fail
and fix " to "predict and prevent"
methodology.

Example of a Boiler under IMS

Why do we need to maintain things regularly?

The answer is, To keep things as reliable as
possible.

How much change or degradation has occurred since

the last round of maintenance?
The answer is, I dont know.

Conditional Base Maintenance

Condition-based maintenance (CBM) deals

with online data. Machine conditions are
constantly monitored and their signatures
evaluated.

However, this is done at the machine level

-- one machine at a time. Its a fail-and-fix
approach. Troubleshooting is the primary
purpose.

CBM
CBM focuses on sensors and
communications. All products and
machines are networked by some
means. Its hard to know, though,
what to do with all this data. We
need to turn data into information by
using computational tools to process
data locally

IMS SYSTEM

EMBEDDED WATCHDOG AGENT

SYSTEM DECISION SUPPORT TOOL

FLOW OF INFORMATION

Modern Computing &

Communication Technologies

Intelligent maintenance systems (IMS) predict

and forecast equipment performance so near-zero
breakdown status is achievable.

There are two reasons for failure: equipment

performance and operator/human error.

Near-zero downtime focuses on predictive

techniques to minimize failures. It focuses on
features of machine performance

Data comes from two sources: sensors and the

entire enterprise system

By correlating data from these sources (current and

historical), you can predict future performance.

The goal is to predict product/machine health in the

same way that the weather is forecast

SCOPES

IMS VALUATION BY INDUSTRIES

CONCLUSION

Scope: Reduce and eliminate costly, unscheduled

downtime and unexpected breakdowns.

Scope: With the advent of Internet, companies

necessitate changes in transforming traditional "fail
and fix (FAF)" maintenance practices to a "predict
and prevent (PAP).

Intelligent Maintenance fundamental needs of

predictive intelligence tools to monitor the
degradation rather than detecting the faults .

Means: Using advanced pervasive computing,

embedded intelligence, and tether-free
communications technologies to enable products
and systems to achieve autonomous functional
objectives.

Means: Using advanced pervasive

computing, embedded intelligence,
and tether-free communications
technologies to enable products and
systems to achieve autonomous
functional objectives.