Preface

The improvement of industrial systems' reliability and production quality is a real problem of the modern industry. The automatic systems of technological processes management enable solving this problem. The local technical control constitutes an important part of the system.

In spite of the diversity and high level of checkout and measurable instruments, the problem of latent failures detection and elimination is still significant.

The latent failure is a failure which cannot be detected by standard methods or visually, but by maintenance or special methods of diagnostics only.

In this monograph, by the latent failure we refer to one which can be detected during control execution only.

In complex industrial systems, the periodical ...

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