Apart from optimising maintenance planning, intermittent RES have few other incentives for load shifting [9,20].
It is one of the first to optimise various maintenance strategies simultaneously with their parameters in industrial manufacturing systems while considering production dynamics.
Civil engineering structures are monitored more and more closely in order to optimise their maintenance and especially to minimise their probability of failure which could cause major equipment and human catastrophes.
To demonstrate the feasibility of the withdrawal operations, and to optimise the maintenance scenario and the handling equipment design, a test facility has been set-up at the ENEA Research Centre of Brasimone (Italy), i.e. the divertor test platform (DTP) that allows to simulate, in full scale, all handling operations inside the vacuum vessel.
"We authenticate all the devices - we're creating an end-to-end platform for the IoT world". IoT sensors are fitted to big machines, from gas turbines to aero engines, and these transmit "petabytes of data in real time that helps us work out how to optimise their maintenance", says Bill Ruh, GE Digital chief executive.
In the long term, monitoring can be used as effective asset management tool to optimise spending on maintenance and repair.
To test and optimise the divertor maintenance scenario, the so called ITER L7 R&D project has been realised at the ENEA Brasimone laboratories, with a full scale simulation of the in-vessel cassette maintenance environment and of the hot cell refurbishment operations.
We are constantly striving to optimise the processing, maintenance, and storage of human tissues and derived products through a dedicated programme of in-house research.
The AGS is a semi-automatic analysis system of flight data that helps to optimise management of maintenance and reduce costs.
The outcome of the paper is a proposal for applying a systems approach to wind turbine gearbox operation and maintenance, optimising the asset value adding contribution at minimal total cost to the operator.
