The reduction of the shutdown maintenance cost, frequency and the loss in production by the proper assessment of the scope of shutdown maintenance work

The reduction of the shutdown maintenance cost, the shutdown maintenance frequency and the loss in production that occurs as a result of performing shutdown maintenance whilst maintaining shutdown maintenance purpose and without creating any operational, safety, or economic problems during normal operation represents one of the most important issues that supports the overall strategy in the continuous process industries. The importance of this issue stimulated the work in research to find ways and methods to reduce the cost and frequency of shutdown maintenance, in addition to, the loss in production without increasing the number of the unplanned shutdowns or creating interruptions to the production line. [Continues.

Biometric Face Recognition Based on Enhanced Histogram Approach

Biometric face recognition including digital processing and analyzing a subject's facial structure. This system has a certain number of points and measures, including the distances between the main features such as eyes, nose and mouth, angles of features such as the jaw and forehead with the lengths of the different parts of the face. With this information, the implemented algorithm creates a unique model with all the digital data. This model can then be compared with the huge databases of images of the face to identify the subject. The recognition features are retrieved here using histogram equalization technique. A high-resolution result is obtained applying this algorithm under the conditions of a specific image database.