Abstract
The only way to minimize maintenance cost and contemporarily maximize plant availability is to perform a condition based maintenance (CBM) strategy for the main critical equipments of the system. This kind of maintenance requires a condition monitoring system and expert skills in order to forecast the degradation phenomenon. Very often these type of competences and the relative maintenance activities are managed by external service providers. So the actual configuration of the maintenance services of a factory is composed by a network of medium and small enterprise that work coordinating by a main contractor without any real integration or cooperation able to improve service efficiency. In this paper we suggest an approach to achieve a condition based maintenance in legacy plants, without peculiar exceptions for the technology involved, maintained through a collaborative network of enterprises. A demonstration unit was built as a test case for the functioning of the expert system to manage the condition based maintenance and the network of skills involved. In the present work, we present a widening regarding the negotiation mechanism that is one the most important issue of the expert system for the collaborative network management.
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a callDisclaimer: All third-party content on this website/platform is and will remain the property of their respective owners and is provided on "as is" basis without any warranties, express or implied. Use of third-party content does not indicate any affiliation, sponsorship with or endorsement by them. Any references to third-party content is to identify the corresponding services and shall be considered fair use under The CopyrightLaw.
