Nowadays, vision systems play a central role in industrial inspection. The experts typically choose the configuration of measurements in such systems empirically. For complex inspections, however, automatic inspection planning is essential. This book proposes a simulation-based approach towards inspection planning by contributing to all components ...
The issue of the optimal planning of inspection and maintenance actions for a randomly deteriorating system constitutes a difficult sequential decision-making problem in which the objective is generally to achieve minimal life-cycle cost. For mathematical tractability, most approaches rely either on the consideration of specific maintenance strateg...
The utilization of rotational movements of a probing system during points measurementscontributes to the reduction of measurement duration and increases measurement repeatability.However, knowledge on such behavior and accuracy of probing systems is still unsatisfactory.Machines combined with articulating probing systems that have the ability of co...
Feature-based approaches have been profusely used in the last decades to incorporate domain-specific knowledge in the design and development of technical systems that, according to the new Concurrent Engineering approaches, involves not only the definition of the product, but also of the required manufacturing/inspection/assembly process and the co...
For offshore wind turbines, the support structure contributes with a significant part to the Levelized Cost Of Energy (LCOE). LCOE is the total cost to build and operate a whole offshore wind turbine structure over its lifetime divided by the total energy output of the wind turbine over that lifetime. That total expected cost of operation & mainten...
In order to avoid failure in its lifetime, a breakwater system has to be inspected and, if necessary, has to be repaired. In this paper, a comprehensive maintenance strategy with optimal inspection planning is formulated. Rational maintenance decision-making approaches are discussed. The proposed maintenance strategy combines time-dependent and con...
Starting point of this paper was the insight that inspection planning in its current state does not satisfy today’s needs. The globalization of markets, dynamic sampling of product life cycles and the continuously increasing demands of customers lead to deep changes. Companies react with adaptation of both structural and process organization – proc...
