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

这笔赠款为一个关于机床系统远程监测和维护的讲习班提供资金。 受邀者将包括机床制造商、控制供应商、用户、学者和几个政府机构的代表。 他们将讨论新出现的需求和进步的障碍，并就制造设备保持加工一致性所需的能力，改进的监测，诊断和自我调整技术，将补偿和诊断功能集成到传统机床中，机床系统的健康监测以及预测部件故障的能力提出建议。 作为讲习班的成果，将概述和报告计量、标准、控制系统、监测系统和传感器方面的主要需要。 本次研讨会的好处将是机床界在未来几年采取的战略路线图， 全面研发计划的启动平台，旨在提供测量性能的解决方案，并提高机床的精度和可靠性。 美国机床制造商，特别是用户和客户，以及整个制造业，将从本次研讨会的成果中受益，更多地了解意外停机的隐藏和重要影响，包括远程监控，预测技术和智能维护实践在内的对策。 年轻的工程师以及学生将有机会在职业生涯的早期阶段面对制造业的真实的挑战，为他们的专业准备。

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.