Pavle Boškoski¹ , Dani Juričič¹ , Anton Urevc² , Jože Vižintin²
Institute Jozef Stefan, Ljubljana
Faculty for Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana
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Summary:
Due to wear, material stress and environmental influences, mechanical drives are more inclined to failures than any other item of equipment. Unexpected failures can result in partial or total breakdown of a production line, destroyed equipment and even catastrophes. A proper maintenance strategy is to abandon the current maintenance paradigms (reactive and preventive) and make room for cost-efficient condition-based (predictive) maintenance.
In this paper we present the initial results of the system prototype. The results are obtained from experiment runs done on our laboratory benchmark rig.

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