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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2022
Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI (US);
Harishankar Rajendran, Tamil Nadu, IN;
Chandra Sekhar Jalluri, Canton, MI (US);
B. Sai Kishore, Telangana, IN;
Jasper Blackful, Southfield, MI (US);
Loren Gardner, Livonia, MI (US);
Nimalkumar Sundarakumar, Tamil Nadu, IN;
Mike Walker, Grosse Ile, MI (US);
Paul Christopher Shaw, Amherstburg, CA;
Dan Accetta, LaSalle, CA;
V. Raghavan, Tamil Nadu, IN;
Richard James Furness, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A method includes obtaining unprocessed data from a plurality of sensors mounted on one or more plant equipment, normalizing the unprocessed data to generate normalized data, converting the unprocessed data from a time domain to a frequency domain to generate a frequency domain signal, detecting a performance anomaly associated with the one or more plant equipment based on the normalized data and a change index routine, and determining a primary cause from among one or more causes of the performance anomaly based on the frequency domain signal and one or more rules.