International Business Machines Corporation

Hyung-il Ahn

Matthew Denesuk

Ying Tat Leung

Axel Hochstein

William Scott Spangler

Methods, systems, and computer program products for generating estimates of failure risk for a vehicular component are provided herein. A method includes splitting an input time series pertaining to a vehicular component across a fleet of multiple vehicles into multiple sub-time series, wherein each sub-time series comprises multiple data points of the input time series that correspond to measurements derived from the vehicular component; determining a weight applied to each of the sub-time series based on a pre-determined weight associated with the input time series; applying a failure or non-failure classification label to each of the sub-time series and the input time series; calculating a performance measure for the input time series; determining an updated weight associated with the input time series; and generating an estimate of failure risk for the vehicular component based on the classification label applied to each input time series and the updated weight.

Generating estimates of failure risk for a vehicular component

Methods, systems, and computer program products for generating estimates of failure risk for a vehicular component in situations of high-dimensional and low sample size data are provided herein. A method includes splitting a first input time series comprising multiple data points derived from a vehicular component across a fleet of multiple vehicles into multiple sub-time series; generating a first failure status predicting function of a first selected sub-time series; deleting, from the first input time series, the portion of the data points that corresponds to the first selected sub-time series; repeating the preceding two steps for a second selected sub-time series; generating a second failure status predicting function of each selected sub-time series; applying each second failure status predicting function to a second input time series to calculate prediction of failure values; and identifying the largest prediction of failure value as an estimate of failure risk for the vehicular component.

Generating estimates of failure risk for a vehicular component in situations of high-dimensional and low sample size data

Methods, systems, and computer program products for correcting existing predictive model outputs with social media features over multiple time scales are provided herein. A method includes examining multiple items of user content derived from one or more social media sources during a given time period to identify one or more items of user content pertaining to a target entity; analyzing the items of user content pertaining to the target entity to determine one or more predictive features in the items of user content related to a target variable associated with the target entity; computing a correlation measure between each of the predictive features and the target variable; and modifying an output of an existing predictive model associated with the target variable via incorporation of the predictive feature with the highest correlation measure into the output of the existing predictive model to generate an updated predictive output.

Correcting existing predictive model outputs with social media features over multiple time scales

Methods, systems, and computer program products for generating wear-based indicators are provided herein. A method includes assigning a failure label to each data point associated with a component associated with a failure-caused component replacement within a pre-specified number of runtime hours of the failure-caused component replacement; assigning a non-failure label to each data point associated with a failure-caused component replacement and not within the pre-specified number of runtime hours; assigning a non-failure label to each data point associated with a scheduled component replacement; assigning a non-failure label to each data point associated with an actively running instance of the component as yet to be replaced; estimating a failure probability for the component over a pre-specified future runtime; determining a cumulative hazard function for the component based on the failure probability; and generating a cumulative wear-based indicator for the component by executing a regression function based on the cumulative hazard function.

Generating cumulative wear-based indicators for vehicular components

Methods, systems, and computer program products for generating a vehicular component replacement policy are provided herein. A method includes, for each of multiple lifetime wear indicator functions associated with a vehicular component, wherein each lifetime wear indicator function comprises a transformed time scale plotting wear indicator values over a period of time, determining multiple corresponding candidate threshold values on the transformed time scale; calculating: a survival probability function for the vehicular component based on each transformed time scale, an average runtime of the vehicular component prior to failure, and an average runtime of the vehicular component prior to a scheduled replacement; calculating an economic criterion value for each given threshold value based on the above calculations and one or more economic parameters; generating the replacement policy to include (i) the lifetime wear indicator function that optimizes the economic criterion value and (ii) the corresponding threshold value.

Integrating economic considerations to develop a component replacement policy based on a cumulative wear-based indicator for a vehicular component

Methods, systems, devices and computer program products for planning for failures of vehicular components are provided herein. A method includes obtaining a first set of data of maintenance events recorded for multiple vehicular components across multiple vehicles in a fleet; obtaining a second set of data of maintenance work orders performed on the vehicular components; obtaining a third set of data of measurements taken in connection with the vehicular components; analyzing (i) the first set of data and (ii) the second set of data to identify component failure events associated with the multiple vehicular components; determining failure indicators for each of the vehicular components in each of the vehicles in the fleet based on the second set of data, the third set of data, and the identified component failure events; and outputting the indicators in multiple visualized forms, each representing one of multiple levels of granularity.

Monitoring and planning for failures of vehicular components

Methods, systems, and computer program products for generating wear-based indicators for vehicular components are provided herein. A method includes assigning a failure class label to each data point, from multiple data points derived from measurements associated with a vehicular component across a fleet of vehicles, that is within a pre-specified number of runtime hours of a replacement; assigning a non-failure class label to each data point not within the pre-specified number of runtime hours of a replacement and each data point associated with a component yet to be replaced; estimating a failure probability at each data point over a pre-specified future runtime of the component based on the assigned class label; determining a cumulative hazard function for the vehicular component based on the failure probability; and generating a cumulative wear-based indicator for the vehicular component by executing a regression function at a given time based on the cumulative hazard function.

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