E-maintenance

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxv

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2. Introduction

   • Kenneth Holmberg

   Pages 1-3

3. Maintenance Today and Future Trends

   • Andrew Starr, Basim Al-Najjar, Kenneth Holmberg, Erkki Jantunen, Jim Bellew, Alhussein Albarbar

   Pages 5-37

4. Information and Communication Technologies Within E-maintenance

   • Aitor Arnaiz, Benoit Iung, Adam Adgar, Tonu Naks, Avo Tohver, Toomas Tommingas et al.

   Pages 39-60

5. A New Integrated E-maintenance Concept

   • Aitor Arnaiz, Benoit Iung, Basim Al-Najjar, Erkki Jantunen, Kenneth Holmberg, Tonu Naks et al.

   Pages 61-82

6. Intelligent Wireless Sensors

   • Samir Mekid, Andrew Starr, Robert Pietruszkiewicz

   Pages 83-123

7. MEMS Sensors

   • Samir Mekid, Zhenhuan Zhu

   Pages 125-171

8. Lubricating Oil Sensors

   • Jari Halme, Eneko Gorritxategi, Jim Bellew

   Pages 173-196

9. Smart Tags

   • Adam Adgar, Alan Yau, Dale Addison

   Pages 197-225

10. Mobile Devices and Services

    • Erkki Jantunen, Christos Giordamlis, Adam Adgar, Christos Emmanouilidis

    Pages 227-246

11. Wireless Communication

    • Nicolas Krommenacker, Vincent Lecuire, Nicolas Salles, Serafim Katsikas, Christos Giordamlis, Christos Emmanouilidis

    Pages 247-272

12. Semantic Web Services for Distributed Intelligence

    • Eduardo Gilabert, Alexandre Voisin

    Pages 273-296

13. Strategies for Maintenance Cost-effectiveness

    • Basim Al-Najjar

    Pages 297-344

14. Dynamic and Cost-effective Maintenance Decisions

    • Basim Al-Najjar, Niclas Eberhagen

    Pages 345-390

15. Industrial Demonstrations of E-maintenance Solutions

    • Julien Mascolo, Per Nilsson, Benoit Iung, Eric Levrat, Alexandre Voisin, Nicolas Krommenacker et al.

    Pages 391-474

16. E-training in Maintenance

    • Christos Emmanouilidis, Vasilis Spais

    Pages 475-506

17. Conclusions and Future Perspectives

    • Kenneth Holmberg

    Pages 507-511

E-maintenance is the synthesis of two major trends in today’s society: the growing importance of maintenance as a key technology and the rapid development of information and communication technology. E-maintenance gives the reader an overview of the possibilities offered by new and advanced information and communication technology to achieve efficient maintenance solutions in industry, energy production and transportation, thereby supporting sustainable development in society. Sixteen chapters cover a range of different technologies, such as: new micro sensors, on-line lubrication sensors, smart tags for condition monitoring, wireless communication and smart personal digital assistants. E-maintenance also discusses semantic data-structuring solutions; ontology structured communications; implementation of diagnostics and prognostics; and maintenance decision support by economic optimisation. It includes four industrial cases that are both described and analysed in detail, with an outline of a global application solution. E-maintenance is a useful tool for engineers and technicians who wish to develop e-maintenance in industrial sites. It is also a source of new and stimulating ideas for researchers looking to make the next step towards sustainable development.

• Condition Monitoring
• Information Technology
• Maintenance
• Monitoring
• Reliability
• SRUK
• Trend
• e-Business
• sensor
• quality control, reliability, safety and risk

• VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, VTT, Espoo, Finland

  Kenneth Holmberg, Erkki Jantunen

• School of Science and Engineering, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK

  Adam Adgar

• Fundación Tekniker, Eibar, Spain

  Aitor Arnaiz

• Centro Ricerche Fiat S.C.p.A, Orbassano, Italy

  Julien Mascolo

• Department of Mechanical Engineering, King Fahd University Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

  Samir Mekid

Kenneth Holmberg is a research professor in tribology, condition monitoring and operational reliability at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. He is the author and editor of several books and has published more than 150 scientific papers, mainly in the areas of tribology, surface engineering, lubrication, operational reliability, maintenance and diagnostics. Professor Holmberg has given 36 invited keynote lectures at international conferences and has been responsible for organising major international conferences in tribology, monitoring and diagnostics. He is vice president of the International Tribology Council and was president of the OECD IRG Wear group 1992-2006, and chairman of the European COST 516&532 TRIBOLOGY joint research actions 1995-2007. He is Chief Engineer Councillor at the Supreme Administrative Court of Finland and a frequently used expert in the European Community and European Science Foundation research actions and programmes. Professor Holmberg is on the editorial board of five scientific journals and is frequently consulted for industrial contracts and R&D projects. Adam Adgar received his PhD in control engineering from the University of Sunderland where he worked for many years. He is an associate member of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and his main research interests are process modelling and control; artificial neural networks; water treatment; statistical process control; and condition monitoring. He is currently a senior lecturer at Teesside University . Aitor Arnaiz has a PhD in computing technologies, related to condition monitoring tasks, from the University of Sunderland. He is currently working as senior researcher and head of Tekniker's Unit of Technologies for Diagnostics and Prediction in Eibar, Spain. His current professional interests are intelligent systems in monitoring, prediction and diagnosis; machine learning; uncertainty management; and Bayesian networks. Erkki Jantunen has a PhD from Helsinki University of Technology. He works as a senior research scientist in the knowledge centre of Smart Machines at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. His research interests are related to information technology applications in maintenance engineering, condition monitoring, machine diagnostics and prognostics, and signal analysis. Julien Mascolo works for the FIAT Research Centre in Turin, Italy. He is a manager in the Infomobility Business Line for projects related to the optimisation of industrial processes: manufacturing, logistics and product development process. In the FIAT Sectors (IVECO, CNH and FIAT Group Automobiles) he is involved in the development of mobility and productivity services based on telematics, and on product lifecycle management. Samir Mekid received his PhD in Precision Engineering. He is a member and chartered engineer (CEng) of IMechE. He was a lecturer at UMIST, then The University of Manchester (UK), and is currently associate professor at KFUPM (KSA). He is engaged in multidisciplinary research activities, including precision machine design, instrumentation, sensors and metrology.

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