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DIGITALISATION

hydraulic excavator or drills number of hose pipes are there well as component life prediction.All mining machinery now
which controls various operating members. By having RFID tag are provided with necessary sensors for health montoring and
to save information like Equipment number, Inspection date for maintenance decision making (Figure2).
and time, Hose length and diameter, Conductivity, Test pres-
sure, Date of the next inspection etc. maintenance require- Personal Device Assistant and
ment warning and maintenance needs may be automated.
Augmented reality
Sensors for maintenance

decision This device will play a very important role in bringing mobile
maintenance to a much simpler level by using on-line guid-
ance on the results of decision-making and analysis of prod-
Maintenance engineering often employ condition monitoring uct result. The PDAs directly enables the maintenance per-
and data analysis solutions, as key enablers for the implemen- sonnel to gain information from monitored machinery. Most
tation of emaintenance. Chiefly, it enables a significant level PDAs can synchronize their data with the applications on us-
of data processing at the ers compute.This allow the user
lowest possible level, next to update contact, schedule,
to the sensing element, or other information on their-
taking the burden from computer using software such
the portable device and as Microsoft outlook, and have
reducing the data com- same data transferred to PDA or
munication requirements from PDA back to the computer
to more manageable system. This eliminates need for
levels. From the e-Main- user to update their data at two
tenance perspective, the places. In addition, this enables
wireless sensing nodes the maintenance operator to
are becoming smart mon- respond to any situation swiftly
itoring agents, capable and then to prepare accordingly,
of performing automat- in addition to this the high-speed
ed computational and communication provide quick
data storing operations, expert advice and accelerate
ranging from basic sam- the information flow among the
ple filtering to advanced monitoring agent, connecting
number crunching. The e- product and maintenance sup-
Maintenance vision con- SENSORS INSTALLED IN MACHINES FOR port system.
siders that such wireless MAINTENANCE INFORMATION NEEDS
sensing components can It is being made possible through
be exploited and integrated in on line maintenance manage- the augmented reality development that the personal device
ment systems, insofarasthe CMMS can encapsulate at least can show the problems of a machine at remote location and
part of the domain knowledge that is related to condition also can guide step by step how to eliminate the problem (Fig-
monitoring, including wear and failure modes modelling, as ure3) interactive guided maintenance.

REMOTE MAINTENANCE SERVICE THROUGH PERSONAL DEVICE ASSISTANT

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