Title :
Expert system for diagnosing equipment failures
Author :
Martin, Terry W. ; Zubaer, Zahid M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Arkansas Univ., Fayetteville, AR, USA
Abstract :
The unexpected failure of equipment that stops production in industrial plants can be very expensive. This paper presents an expert system that was developed to assist nonexpert personnel to reduce the amount of time that a steel mill is out of production due to equipment failures. The expert system implemented provides the user with step-by-step test and repair information so that the machine can be fixed in minimum time at minimum cost
Keywords :
automatic test equipment; automatic test software; diagnostic expert systems; failure analysis; fault diagnosis; maintenance engineering; power apparatus; steel industry; equipment failure diagnosis; expert system; industrial plants; production outages; repair information; steel mill; step-by-step test information; Books; Costs; Diagnostic expert systems; Expert systems; Humans; Industrial plants; Milling machines; Personnel; Production; Steel;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Electronics, Control and Instrumentation, 1997. IECON 97. 23rd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
New Orleans, LA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3932-0
DOI :
10.1109/IECON.1997.668454
