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SMARTS-Based Decision Support Model for CMMS Selection in Integrated Building Maintenance Management

Buildings, 2023
An Integrated Maintenance System (IMS) represents a coordinated methodology including different maintenance policies, such as preventive and corrective.
Rui Calejo Rodrigues, Hipólito Sousa, Ivo Almino Gondim   +2 more
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Design of a Condition Monitoring System for Wind Turbines

Energies, 2022
Renewable energy is being adopted worldwide, and the proportion of offshore wind turbines is increasing. Offshore wind turbines operate in harsh weather conditions, resulting in various failures and high maintenance costs.
Jinje Park, Changhyun Kim, Minh-Chau Dinh, Minwon Park   +3 more
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Lockout and Tagout in a Manufacturing Setting from a Situation Awareness Perspective

Safety, 2019
Applying lockouts during maintenance is intended to avoid accidental energy release, whereas tagging them out keeps employees aware of what is going on with the machine.
Prasanna Illankoon, Yamuna Manathunge, Phillip Tretten, John Abeysekara, Sarbjeet Singh   +4 more
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Classification of Photovoltaic Failures with Hidden Markov Modeling, an Unsupervised Statistical Approach

Energies, 2022
Failure detection methods are of significant interest for photovoltaic (PV) site operators to help reduce gaps between expected and observed energy generation.
Michael W. Hopwood, Lekha Patel, Thushara Gunda   +2 more
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Framework for Managing Maintenance of Wind Farms Based on a Clustering Approach and Dynamic Opportunistic Maintenance

Energies, 2019
The growth in the wind energy sector is demanding projects in which profitability must be ensured. To fulfil such aim, the levelized cost of energy should be reduced, and this can be done by enhancing the Operational Expenditure through excellence in ...
Juan Izquierdo, Adolfo Crespo Márquez, Jone Uribetxebarria, Asier Erguido   +3 more
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Research and application on agile intelligent system named “SWIFT”

Dianzi Jishu Yingyong, 2021
In view of the lack of sufficient computing, storage and communication network resources for computing equipment at the edge of inclement industrial environments, and the requirement for ms-level data processing response, the agile intelligent system ...
Fang Ke, Ning Kun, Pan Ling
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Applications of robotics in floating offshore wind farm operations and maintenance: Literature review and trends

Wind Energy, 2022
Marine operations required to transfer technicians and equipment represent a significant proportion of the total cost of offshore wind. The profile of sites being considered for floating offshore wind farms (FOWFs), e.g., further from the shore and in ...
Omer Khalid, Guangbo Hao, Cian Desmond, Hamish Macdonald, Fiona Devoy McAuliffe, Gerard Dooly, Weifei Hu   +6 more
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Why Can Simple Operation and Maintenance (O&M) Practices in Large-Scale Grid-Connected PV Power Plants Play a Key Role in Improving Its Energy Output?

Energies, 2021
Existing megawatt-scale photovoltaic (PV) power plant producers must understand that simple and low-cost Operation and Maintenance (O&M) practices, even executed by their own personal and supported by a comparison of field data with simulated ones, play ...
Hamid Iftikhar, Eduardo Sarquis, P. J. Costa Branco   +2 more
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Assessing the Welfare of Technicians during Transits to Offshore Wind Farms

Vibration, 2023
Available decision-support tools rarely account for the welfare of technicians in maintenance scheduling for offshore wind farms. This creates uncertainties, especially since current operational limits might make a wind farm accessible but the vibrations
Tobenna D. Uzuegbunam, Rodney Forster, Terry Williams   +2 more
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Knowledge-based and Expert Systems in Prognostics and Health Management: a Survey

International Journal of Prognostics and Health Management
Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) has become increasingly popular in recent years, and data-driven methods and artificial intelligence have emerged as dominant tools within the PHM field.
Kalil Bouhadra, Florent Forest
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