This paper proposes an agent-based approach for real-time collaborative monitoring and maintenance of equipments and machines. The proposed approach automates the maintenance management process by utilizing intelligent softvvare agents. The maintenance schedules are achieved by automated real time negotiation among software agents representing geographically distributed field engineers and a br...

the conventional tunneling procedures for example drilling, charging, blasting, loading and supporting, are highly developed. new tunneling machines have recently come into operation and others are under construction or development. impactors are used in large numbers in the coal mining industry. face-heading machines are successfully used in new tunneling procedures in both soft and medium-har...

This paper presents the design and prototype implementation of new Wi-Fi technology based monitoring and controlling the field equipments or machines using Phone, Tablet Laptop or any desktop pc having Wi-Fi utility with IEEE 802.11b, g and n standards. The proposed system is divided into two parts for better implementation; the first part is monitoring the embedded system (field equipments) da...

Maintenance is one of the important activities in any industry. In a large industry, in order to prioritize the maintenance action, we need to identify the critical equipments. The present paper has explored to identify the critical equipments of a coal based power plant and rank them accordingly. Multiple criteria like: environmental impact (EI), customer inconvenience (CI) and maintenance cos...

The uses of electric machines are vital today. These are major equipments for engineering, industries, and research scholars as well as in day to day life. In today’s technological advanced and computer based environment use of these machines are limited until they are not upgraded. Thus automation and up gradation are very much required. Here in this paper we are presenting a not much expensiv...

The article presents the application of total productive maintenance (TPM) to analyze the working time indicators of casting machines with particular emphasis on failures and unplanned downtime to reduce the proportion of emergency operation for preventive maintenance and diagnostics. The article presents that the influence of individual factors of complex machinery maintenance (TPM) is ...

With the increasing coverage of wireless local area network and the rapid popularity of intelligent terminal equipments, this paper designs a system, in which oil rig can be remote monitored by any mobile devices to satisfy the processing needs of remote control function in the industry of oil and natural gas. The system contains the drill site end with the Force Control V8 programming, the dat...