CIMPLO

The CIMPLO Team attended the annual NWO-TTW program meeting Smart Industry 2016 (SI2016) held in Utrecht on the 9^th October 2018. The meeting was organized for all recipients of the SI2016 grand, and allowed not only to present the current status of the projects but also to network and share experiences. This included members of the academic research groups as well as the collaborating industrial partners. An external moderator facilitated in-depth discussion and exchange of ideas and possible future-collaborations.

As systems and equipment become more complex and expensive, the competition drives industries to become increasingly concerned about system reliability and availability. The need to reduce maintenance and logistics costs while at the same time minimizing the risk of catastrophic failures, and maximizing system availability is leading a drive towards predictive maintenance.  In predictive maintenance,  …

Traditional maintenance concepts rely on a “fixed interval approach”, which takes into account a significant safety margin. As a consequence, maintenance is almost always taking place too early or too late, which makes it probably one of the most inefficient industrial activities and most critical at the same time The CIMPLO-project aims at developing a …