Workshop on Remote Monitoring and Predictive Maintenance of Machine Tool Systems- Achieving Near-Zero Downtime Performance; Ann Arbor, Michigan; April 29, 2003

这笔赠款为远程监测和维护机床系统讲习班提供资金。受邀者将包括机床制造商、控制供应商、用户、院士和几个政府机构的代表。他们将讨论新出现的需求和进展障碍，并就制造设备保持工艺一致性所需的能力、监测、诊断和自我调整的改进技术、将补偿和诊断功能整合到传统机床、机床系统的健康监测以及预测部件故障的能力提出建议。研讨会将概述并报告在计量、标准、控制系统、监测系统和传感器方面的主要需求。这次研讨会的好处将是机床行业在未来几年将采取的战略的路线图，一个旨在带来解决方案以测量性能并提高机床的精度和可靠性的全面研发计划的启动平台。美国机床制造商，特别是用户和客户，以及整个制造业，将从这次研讨会的结果中受益，了解更多关于意外停机的隐藏和关键影响、对策，包括远程监控、预测技术和智能维护实践。年轻的工程师和学生将有机会在他们职业生涯的早期阶段面对制造业的真正挑战，为他们的职业准备。

This grant provides funding for a workshop on remote monitoring and maintenance of machine tool systems. Invitees will include machine tool builders, control suppliers, users, academicians and representatives of several government agencies. They will discuss the emerging needs and barriers to progress, and make recommendations on needed capabilities of manufacturing equipment to maintain processing consistency, improved techniques to monitor, diagnose and self-adjustment, integration of compensation and diagnostic features into legacy machine tools, health monitoring of the machine tool systems, and capabilities for prediction of component failures. Major needs in metrology, standards, control systems, monitoring systems and sensors will be outlined and reported as a result of the workshop. The benefits of this workshop will be a roadmap for the machine tool community on strategies to be taken during following years, a launch platform for comprehensive research and development programs oriented toward bringing solutions to measure performance, and improve the accuracy and reliability of machine tools. United States machine tool builders, users and customers in particular, and manufacturing industry at large, will benefit from the results of this workshop by learning more about the hidden and vital effects of unexpected downtime, countermeasures including remote monitoring, predictive technologies and intelligent maintenance practices. Young engineers as well as students will have an opportunity to face the real challenges of the manufacturing industry at the early stages of their career for their professional preparation.