Predictive Maintenance supported by Advanced Process Control (APC) opens new equipment engineering and manufacturing opportunities

摘要

In the last decade, new, approaches like Equipment Fault Detection Control (FDC or. EDC), improved data storages, extended Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) using multivariate & stochastic analysis, empowered Advanced (Automated) Process Control (APC) have been introduced to efficiently support equipment and product industrialization phases from Research & Development (R&D) to manufacturing. This article, concerned with predictive maintenance, emphasizes how APC tools, embedded in a coherent framework of methods, statistical applications and data, are now in aposition to be used.. as an equipment and industrial engineering performance booster. Based on the fact that yield, cycle time, cost reduction and the majority of scraps are linked to. Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE) and equipment drifts, this paper covers an approach to work On equipment reliability and defining an 'Equipment Health Factor" (EHF).