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Main Authors: Rombach, Katharina, Michau, Gabriel, Bürzle, Wilfried, Koller, Stefan, Fink, Olga
Format: Preprint
Published: 2022
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.13288
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author Rombach, Katharina
Michau, Gabriel
Bürzle, Wilfried
Koller, Stefan
Fink, Olga
author_facet Rombach, Katharina
Michau, Gabriel
Bürzle, Wilfried
Koller, Stefan
Fink, Olga
contents Monitoring the health of complex industrial assets is crucial for safe and efficient operations. Health indicators that provide quantitative real-time insights into the health status of industrial assets over time serve as valuable tools for e.g. fault detection or prognostics. This study proposes a novel, versatile and unsupervised approach to learn health indicators using contrastive learning, where the operational time serves as a proxy for degradation. To highlight its versatility, the approach is evaluated on two tasks and case studies with different characteristics: wear assessment of milling machines and fault detection of railway wheels. Our results show that the proposed methodology effectively learns a health indicator that follows the wear of milling machines (0.97 correlation on average) and is suitable for fault detection in railway wheels (88.7% balanced accuracy). The conducted experiments demonstrate the versatility of the approach for various systems and health conditions.
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spellingShingle Learning Informative Health Indicators Through Unsupervised Contrastive Learning
Rombach, Katharina
Michau, Gabriel
Bürzle, Wilfried
Koller, Stefan
Fink, Olga
Machine Learning
Monitoring the health of complex industrial assets is crucial for safe and efficient operations. Health indicators that provide quantitative real-time insights into the health status of industrial assets over time serve as valuable tools for e.g. fault detection or prognostics. This study proposes a novel, versatile and unsupervised approach to learn health indicators using contrastive learning, where the operational time serves as a proxy for degradation. To highlight its versatility, the approach is evaluated on two tasks and case studies with different characteristics: wear assessment of milling machines and fault detection of railway wheels. Our results show that the proposed methodology effectively learns a health indicator that follows the wear of milling machines (0.97 correlation on average) and is suitable for fault detection in railway wheels (88.7% balanced accuracy). The conducted experiments demonstrate the versatility of the approach for various systems and health conditions.
title Learning Informative Health Indicators Through Unsupervised Contrastive Learning
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.13288