Reliability estimation plays a significant role in the performance assessment of mining equipment, and aids in designing efficient and effective preventive maintenance strategies. Continuous and random/irregular occurrence of failures in a system could be the main cause for performance drop of machinery. The accomplishment of a projected level of production is possible only by an efficient oper...

Two regulations, The Control of Wastage of Electrical and Electronic Equipment, and Directives Restricting the Use of Hazardous Substances, adopted by the European Union in 2002 and 2003 respectively, control the sale of electrical and electronic equipment in all 25 nation members and these regulations are going to influence other countries in the world. Giving increasing global awareness of th...

The Quality Control (QC) routine performance tests of the fluoroscopy equipment are an irreversible element of the Quality Assurance (QA) and Patient Protection (PP) system. The results from these tests may be helpful in identifying and quantifying: changes in system performance due to component failure or drift, programmed changes in system performance due to upgrades software, a new spectral ...

With the control mode of value-added network services equipment changing from bypass intervention to serial control, in order to minimize the security problems which are caused by the failure of the network equipment, this paper proposes a stable, fast and intelligent network bypass protection system combined with the ARM embedded system—Linux platform. In practical application, the system can ...

The aim of PROTEUS -a system for the analysis of short technical texts -is to increase the reliability of the analysis process through the integration of syntactic and semantic constraints, domain knowledge, and knowledge of discourse structure. This system is initially being applied to the analysis of messages describing the failure, diagnosis, and repair of selected pieces of equipment. This ...

Care of the trauma victim with acute renal failure in resource-limited locations presents a number of challenges [1]. Lack of standard haemodialysis equipment, supplies and trained personnel; unreliable and/or unsafe water sources; and non-functional or unreliable electrical systems, are some of the factors that limit the ability to care for victims with renal failure requiring renal replacemen...

Partial discharge (PD) measurement and recognition is a significant tool for potential failure diagnosis of the high-voltage equipment. This paper proposes the application of grey clustering approach (GCA) to recognize partial discharge patterns of the high-voltage equipment. The PD patterns are measured by using a commercial PD detector. A set of features, used as operators, for each PD patter...