Abstract
Pneumatic cylinders have become integral parts of today’s production machinery. In the age of just-in-time inventory system and with it the related production process, new, increased requirements were introduced. As a result, even the smallest fault in the system can lead to degradation in the product’s quality in addition to this it can cause unplanned downtime leading to delays in production, not to mention higher costs. The availability of cheap sensors, big data, and algorithms from the field of predictive maintenance made the aforementioned problem tractable.
This paper examines whether signal-based condition indicators provide commercially viable and affordable basis for development of a health monitoring system for pneumatic actuator-based production machinery. The experiments and their results presented in this paper served two objectives. The first was to examine if faults on such equipment can be detected. The second was to identify the best combination of sensors, which are able to detect and identify fault with required accuracy. The evaluation of the sensors was not solely based on fault detection capabilities, but other practical aspects (price and durability of the sensors) were also taken into account.
This research was funded by the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology under the projects FSI-S-20-6407: “Research and development of methods for simulation, modelling a machine learning in mechatronics”, and FV-21-03: “Laboratory model: Inertially driven inverse pendulum”.
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We would like to thank Mechatronic Design Solution ltd. for their help in designing and building the pneumatic test bench and for their expertise with pneumatic actuator-based production machinery.
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Dobossy, B., Formánek, M., Stastny, P., Spáčil, T. (2022). Fault Detection and Identification on Pneumatic Production Machine. In: Mazal, J., et al. Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous Systems. MESAS 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13207. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98260-7_3
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