ADVANCED MONITORING SYSTEMS FOR THE PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE OF MECHANICAL SYSTEMS AND COMPONENTS

Maintenance strategies can be assigned to one of three categories: fai lure maintenance, periodic maintenance or condition-oriented maintenan ce. The optimum maintenance scheme can be selected on the basis of a c ost-benefit analysis However, issues such as personal safety and publi c acceptance of nuclear power can hardly be expressed in figures. The implementation of preventive maintenance needs Two preconditions: high -performance instrumentation in the form of stationary and mobile moni toring systems for the determination of the plant components' conditio n, and the provision of a tool which can handle both the organization of the work and the evaluation of the results obtained.