Active Monitoring, Machinery Example

Active machinery monitoring – continuous supervising, diagnosing, managing, controlling, compensating, documenting- is a process of acquiring and transferring streams of information (usually source information) about the analysed object, process, and relations between the same and the environment that can be used to realize the postulated state: knowledge creation (theory and innovation), environment melioration (harmfulness) and technical system optimization (design) - depending on technology needs and engineer imaginations. Knowledge creation comes as result of the creative action (creating). Melioration means the intentional activities of a technical system and boundary zone; activities that enhance, improve, and restore properties of the environment and not only limit technological harmfulness. Optimum comes in property of the machinery design (construction) or system state with respect to the criteria that enable rational evaluation of the state. Active monitoring, investigations into multi-disc grinders, demonstrate that it is possible to acquire knowledge of, describe and utilize, for design and structural purposes, the characteristics that indicate the relations between speeds, idle movement, loads and the indicators of motion variables in the grinding space. The objective of this example is to provide a mathematical description, optimisation of the states and changes in the grinding grains and machine space, their surface and volume during movement (idle and working movement) of the components, and design assemblies in the multi-hole grinding process.

Energy Efficient Acting Systems

Energy efficiency relates to process, environment, and material, all effects (relationships benefit the inputs) of creative activities of matter, energy, and information. The higher the level of recognition of processing and transformation needs, the smaller a contribution of undesirable effects to the achievable objectives of the activities. The purpose of the environmental effects is to combine planning and freedom – not through impractical, impermanent compromise, but through voluntary recognition of the legitimacy of and need for both of them.

Introduction

Technology and energy sources monitoring: control, efficiency, and optimization - belong to theory and practice of monitoring. Continuous supervising, diagnosing, managing, controlling, compensating, documenting; a process of acquiring and transferring streams of information (usually source information) about the analysed object, process, and relations between the same and the environment that can be used to realize the postulated state depending on needs and knowledge available – it is sciences and practice of monitoring. The self sciences of monitoring is a specific type of social practice aimed at adequate understanding of the reality in order to control and use it with a limited range of consequences and responsibilities. In the most general terms, the purpose of each filed of science (art) is to transform the reality into an image (virtualization). Music was the oldest language; painting was the oldest writing system. A language is a constant work of mind. It is not a creation (ergon), but rather an action (energeia – activity). Nobody thinks, as regards a given word, exactly the same as another person. Understanding is at the same time misunderstanding. A theory cannot be produced out of the results of observations, it must be invented. A theory does not have to be true, but it should encourage thinking.

Beauty of the Environment, Knowledge, and Systems

The beauty of the environment, boundary zone (knowledge), technical systems, numerous machines in power and technological systems, results from their abundance, diversity and good states, changes and the consequences of their actions. The abundance and diversity of solutions pertain primarily to environmental resources, including systems: control, drive, maintenance, and power; lines: raw material preparation, testing, analysis, and storage of the product. Preservation of natural properties and their values produces good energy states, changes, consequences for energy, machinery as well as technological surroundings and the natural environment. Beauty as property is a feature of the object potential with respect to the relation to the other object. An ability is to influence another object, take actions under influence of another object, and to maintain a relation to other object in time. There is no issue of durability; there is only an issue of proper durability.

Innovative Monitoring

Innovative solutions and technologies are highly dependent on the state of existence (the technical infrastructure available). The existence of a man is vocation for creating. Creation is an ability to act – moderation – decisive moment. Types of engineering creations (achievements) include: knowledge, technical innovation (new machines), and arrangement, or organisational improvement. A dynamic creation, development of new infrastructure and technologies favours the fulfilment of objectives defined in energy policies adopted by many countries for the next 10 years. A tool that supports objectives of the technical infrastructure creation and development is based on innovative active monitoring of technical (energy) systems, which, through observation and diagnosis of the state, provides the necessary knowledge about the analysed system and enables the achievement of satisfactory values of parameters describing the quality (of energy, energy services) through the control (of supply), regulation (of power level), and compensation (of disturbances).

Special Systems of Technology

Special technical system (ST) is a complex arrangement of process, control, information and logistic elements, and relations that realise purposeful technologies of energy goods and resources processing, product manufacturing, and services provision. Complexity of the special system guarantees a high degree of integration in respect of melioration of the natural environment (O), using and creating values of culture and knowledge of the boundary zone (SG). Specificity of special systems results primarily from their design, technology employed, as well as functionality and intended use of the system. Use means application of a technical object according to its intended use and functional properties in order to satisfy needs of people (society). During the operation of a machine, different types of energy are transformed into mechanical useful work where relations between elements of the machine that work together occur as relevant forces (of reactions, loads). Therefore, each technological system is a special system in the context of the technical solution used, specificity of the production process or services, materials used, environmental working conditions, quality and safety requirements, systems limiting negative influence on the environment, level of demand for energy and resources, organisation, and management methods.

Optimization and Sustainable Development

Optimization and sustainable development of energy systems are processes of creative activity related to the search for adequate values of material, machine, and process indicators with respect to the rational criteria. The mathematical product standard (quality), effective or non-effectiveness acting models of energy technical systems are conditions for optimization. Standard, as distance between two functions (function difference) – one of the functions usually describes benchmark (model), the second – real thing (matter, reality). In case of a energy processor, design features determined by the construction are the benchmark, while produced design elements of post-manufacturing forms and dimensions are the real thing (reality). The standard is usually calculated for the material and the machine and not so often for the process. The standard is at the same time the basic dimension (distance) of quality. Efficiency (relates to process, environment, and material), is dimension of all effects of creative activities of matter, energy, and information. The higher the level of recognition of processing and transformation needs, the smaller a contribution of undesirable effects to the achievable objectives of the activities. These optimizations occur in different construction sets and different ways of raw, waste, energy materials preparation, disintegrating, according to the properties of the material before and after the process. The behavior of the new disintegrated element (the cracking, bending, stretching, turning round, and/or the displacement of material) depends mainly on machine development, innovation, design-construction, and among other things, the shape of the working space and working tools (e.g. knives, hammers, balls, etc.) as well as on kinematic relations between such elements.

System and Environment Design

The knowledge about the conditions necessary for existence, which conforms to the environment and changes of technical potentials, is hastily formed. If it is to be regarded in science, system, or environment design, as a discipline of knowledge (boundary zone (SG)), must not only be characterized by certain features that are common to all scientific subjects, it also has to be clearly distinguishable from them. The former decide whether it may be generally referred to as science, the latter decide whether it has the right to independent existence. Design of technological and power machinery and equipment (technical system (ST)) and environment (O) belongs to those few areas of technical sciences today, which methodological features have not been fully defined. Thus, it is still the subject of various disputes and controversies. At times, these disagreements go so far that its scientific character, and thus its place in the family of sciences, is called into question. With certain types of interpretations the knowledge of technical system and environment design is nothing but a set of directives for the use of practitioners, derived from other fields of technical/biological science. In this case, of course, it could not be a subject of science, as it would not have its own research issues and its own methodology of solving them.

Technologies

The production process is made up of a set of actions involving processing of raw materials, energy materials, and semi-finished products, turned into finished products. The production process is always related to a specific product and takes place in specific production units. The basic part of the production process is the technological process. Moreover, it includes eco-manufacturability, auxiliary processes such as storage, transport, control. Eco-manufacturability, as reasonable harmony between technical operation of machines, technology, energy and a permanent need for protection, shaping, positive progress, enhancement and development of the human environment, air, water, soil, plants, animals, urban areas, rural areas, the Earth, natural resources, materials and structural materials, machines, devices, tools, systems, and rooms.

The Environment of Energy Goods

Energy goods are for engineering, technologies, and machines what consciousness is for men. Energy is indestructible; it may only change in form or become absorbed by other material system. Engineering – work of the high, not lowest status, activity that involves designing, constructing, modifying, and operating technical systems, is aimed at resolving defined problems, is economically and ecologically acceptable, and uses available scientific and technical knowledge. Entropy – measure of processing, release, and transformation of energy carriers (gr.: en – energy, tropos – processing, transformation). Work of the lowest status is the one that is intensively entropic. One falling tree causes more noise than the whole forest when it grows.