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Main Authors: Parii, Dan, Janssen, Evelyne, Tang, Guangzhi, Kouzinopoulos, Charalampos, Pietrasik, Marcin
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.07638
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author Parii, Dan
Janssen, Evelyne
Tang, Guangzhi
Kouzinopoulos, Charalampos
Pietrasik, Marcin
author_facet Parii, Dan
Janssen, Evelyne
Tang, Guangzhi
Kouzinopoulos, Charalampos
Pietrasik, Marcin
contents Accurately predicting the lifespan of critical device components is essential for maintenance planning and production optimization, making it a topic of significant interest in both academia and industry. In this work, we investigate the use of survival analysis for predicting the lifespan of production printheads developed by Canon Production Printing. Specifically, we focus on the application of five techniques to estimate survival probabilities and failure rates: the Kaplan-Meier estimator, Cox proportional hazard model, Weibull accelerated failure time model, random survival forest, and gradient boosting. The resulting estimates are further refined using isotonic regression and subsequently aggregated to determine the expected number of failures. The predictions are then validated against real-world ground truth data across multiple time windows to assess model reliability. Our quantitative evaluation using three performance metrics demonstrates that survival analysis outperforms industry-standard baseline methods for printhead lifespan prediction.
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spellingShingle Predicting the Lifespan of Industrial Printheads with Survival Analysis
Parii, Dan
Janssen, Evelyne
Tang, Guangzhi
Kouzinopoulos, Charalampos
Pietrasik, Marcin
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Accurately predicting the lifespan of critical device components is essential for maintenance planning and production optimization, making it a topic of significant interest in both academia and industry. In this work, we investigate the use of survival analysis for predicting the lifespan of production printheads developed by Canon Production Printing. Specifically, we focus on the application of five techniques to estimate survival probabilities and failure rates: the Kaplan-Meier estimator, Cox proportional hazard model, Weibull accelerated failure time model, random survival forest, and gradient boosting. The resulting estimates are further refined using isotonic regression and subsequently aggregated to determine the expected number of failures. The predictions are then validated against real-world ground truth data across multiple time windows to assess model reliability. Our quantitative evaluation using three performance metrics demonstrates that survival analysis outperforms industry-standard baseline methods for printhead lifespan prediction.
title Predicting the Lifespan of Industrial Printheads with Survival Analysis
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.07638