- Title
- Design of a fuzzy logic control system for monitoring gearbox jamming in a bottle washer machine
- Creator
- Mushiri, Tawanda, Mbohwa, Charles
- Subject
- Fuzzy logic, Gearbox jamming
- Date
- 2015-03-03
- Type
- Article
- Identifier
- uj:5154
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10210/14286
- Description
- The purpose of this research was to come up with an intelligent monitoring tool to reduce the number of breakdowns of a beverage company bottle washer. The Fuzzy Logic system was derived among other artificial intelligent systems to be best appropriate to solve the breakdown challenges of the bottle washer. A gearbox is always jamming and it is not easy to troubleshoot the breakdown cause and fuzzy logic is a tool that was used for monitoring. The researchers carried out a company audit, interviews and administered questionnaires in order to gather relevant data. The results were used in intelligent condition-based-maintenance modelling to solve the problem using fuzzy logic system and it was found that oil level should be always above 40% otherwise the gearbox will be made to stop. Torque is supposed to have a range of values accepted from 0-8 000Nm beyond that we consider the stoppage of the gearbox. Very higher torques above 10000Nm damages the machinery.
- Publisher
- IEOM
- Rights
- ©2015, authors
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