A knowledge based expert system for condition monitoring
- Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario (Canada). Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Defence Research Establishment Pacific, Victoria, British Columbia (Canada)
Condition monitoring (CM) is the focus of many maintenance philosophies around the world today. In the Canadian Forces (CF), CM has played an important role in the maintenance of aircraft systems since the introduction of spectrometric oil analysis (SOAP) over twenty years ago. Other techniques in use in the CF today include vibration analysis (VA), ferrography, and filter debris analysis (FDA). To improve the usefulness and utility gained from these CM techniques, work is currently underway to incorporate expert systems into them. An expert system for FDA is being developed which will aid filter debris analysts in identifying wear debris and wear level trends, and which will provide the analyst with reference examples in an attempt to standardize results. Once completed, this knowledge based expert system will provide a blueprint from which other CM expert systems can be created. Amalgamating these specific systems into a broad based global system will provide the CM analyst with a tool that will be able to correlate data and results from each of the techniques, thereby increasing the utility of each individual method of analysis. This paper will introduce FDA and then outline the development of the FDA expert system and future applications.
- OSTI ID:
- 80115
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-940222-; TRN: IM9532%%242
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Corrosion 94: National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE) international annual conference, Baltimore, MD (United States), 28 Feb - 4 Mar 1994; Other Information: PBD: 1994; Related Information: Is Part Of Corrosion/94 conference papers; PB: 5005 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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