Maintenance Decision-Making Support for Textile Machines: A Knowledge-Based Approach Using Fuzzy Logic and Vibration Monitoring

A condition-based maintenance approach may be used for planning the maintenance activities of textile machines with a satisfactory performance by developing maintenance decision-making support based on fuzzy logic and vibration monitoring. Since textile machines are systems with moving parts operating at relatively high-speed, vibration monitoring was used to indicate their failure development. At the same time, the characterization of the degradation phenomenon of textile machines involves some degree of uncertainty and vagueness. Within this context, a knowledge-based approach that employed fuzzy logic and vibration monitoring was developed. Deterioration symptoms do announce future failures of industrial machines, therefore building a maintenance decision-making support for scheduling maintenance actions of textile machines based on the estimation of their condition becomes a resourceful way to prevent their further deterioration.