Intelligent

Maintenance
Agenda
 INTRODUCTION
 VISION
 EXAMPLE OF A BOILER
 CONDITIONAL BASED
MAINTANENCE
 MODERN COMPUTING &
COMMUNICATION TECHNILOGY
 IMS SYSTEM
 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.
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 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.
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Example of a Boiler under IMS
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 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 don’t 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. It’s 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. It’s 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
 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.
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 Means: Using advanced pervasive computing,
embedded intelligence, and tether-free
communications technologies to enable products
and systems to achieve autonomous functional
objectives.
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