US-Brazil Collaborative Research on Intelligent Industrial Maintenance Strategies

该CNIC提案寻求对路易斯安那州立大学（LSU）两名教师Marcio de Queiroz博士和Warren Liao博士以及一名LSU研究生对巴西卡塔里纳联邦大学（UFSC）进行为期五天的规划访问的支持。 这次旅行的目的是启动与UFSC教员Joao卡洛斯E博士的研究合作。Ferreira和他的团队，在工业工厂的智能设备维护策略领域。工业设备维护通常是生产成本的一个重要因素，也影响产品质量和生产时间。 因此，公司可以通过制定有效的维护策略来获得竞争优势。 本研究的目的是通过利用电子维护的趋势和智能系统和制造集成的最新进展，推进设备维护系统设计的知识状态。 LSU-UFSC团队拥有成功解决这些问题所需的技术背景，包括分析和计算技能的正确组合。 这位巴西合作者带来了制造工程一般领域的经验，并领导了USFC的制造集成实验室，并与行业保持密切联系。 Ferreira博士和他的团队开发了一个自动化分布式系统，该系统有可能推广到智能维护策略中。该项目将有助于LSU和UFSC之间建立长期的研究和教育合作伙伴关系，将研究和教育活动结合起来。 此外，有待制定的设备维护策略适用于两国的众多石化工厂。

This CNIC proposal seeks support for a five-day planning visit by two Louisiana State University (LSU) faculty members, Drs. Marcio de Queiroz and Warren Liao, and one LSU graduate student to the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) in Brazil. The aim of the travel is to initiate research collaboration with UFSC faculty member, Dr. Joao Carlos E. Ferreira and his group, in the area of intelligent equipment maintenance strategies for industrial plants.Industrial equipment maintenance is often a big factor in production costs and also affects the quality of products and the production time. Thus, a company can gain a competitive edge by having an effective maintenance strategy in place. The objective of this research is to advance the state-of-knowledge in the design of equipment maintenance systems by exploiting the trend towards e-maintenance and recent progress in intelligent systems and manufacturing integration. The LSU-UFSC team has the necessary technical background for successfully tackling these topics, including the right combination of analytical and computational skills. The Brazilian collaborator brings experience in the general area of manufacturing engineering and heads the Manufacturing Integration Lab at USFC, plus maintains close ties with industry. Dr. Ferreira and his group have developed an automated distributed system that has the potential to be generalized into an intelligent maintenance strategy.The project will help to start a long-term research and educational partnership between LSU and UFSC that will integrate research and education activities. Furthermore, the equipment maintenance strategies to be developed are applicable to the numerous petrochemical plants in both countries.