Predicting remaining useful life (RUL) becomes significant to implement prognostics and health management of industrial systems. The relevant studies have contributed to creating RUL prediction models and validating their acceptable performance; however, they are confined to drive reasonable preventive maintenance strategies derived from and connected with such predictive models. This paper proposes a data-driven preventive maintenance method that predicts RUL of industrial systems and determines the optimal replacement time intervals to lead to cost minimization in preventive maintenance. The proposed method comprises: (1) generating RUL prediction models through learning historical process data by using machine learning techniques including random forest and extreme gradient boosting, and (2) applying the system failure time derived from the RUL prediction models to the Weibull distribution-based minimum-repair block replacement model for finding the cost-optimal block replacement time. The paper includes a case study to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed method using an open dataset, wherein sensor data are generated and recorded from turbofan engine systems.

According to industrialization and urbanization the number of increasing cars is attributable to an explosive increase of the vehicle emissions. In this study, in consideration of the population and local transportation characteristics of South Chungcheong Province the environmental and economic cost-benefit analyses are performed to evaluate whether the CNG bus conversion gives what kind of effects. Based on the analysis result the expansion and distribution plan of CNG bus is proposed for South Chungcheong Province, and the local supply policy model is also proposed considering the acquisition and management of the economic situation of CNG charging infrastructure and the small transportation companies.

본 연구의 목적은 댐방류에 의한 하류하천의 수질개선효과를 대체댐이 아닌 하수처리시설을 대체시설의 비용으로 적용하여 국내 실정에 맞게 편익으로 산정하는 방법론을 제시하는 것이다. 이를 위해 댐을 대체하는 시설은 댐의 방류수와 동일한 기능을 제공해야 하고, 두 시설간의 비용을 객관적으로 비교할 수 있어야 한다. 본 논문은 대체비용법을 이용하여 수질개선편익을 산정하기 위해 대체시설(하수처리장)의 비용 산정방법, 비용 편익분석 관련 기준인 내용연수와 대수선비율