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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2006
Piero Patrone Bonissone, Schenectady, NY (US);
Feng Xue, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Anil Varma, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Kai Frank Goebel, Mountain View, CA (US);
Weizhong Yan, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Neil Holger White Eklund, Schenectady, NY (US);
Piero Patrone Bonissone, Schenectady, NY (US);
Feng Xue, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Anil Varma, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Kai Frank Goebel, Mountain View, CA (US);
Weizhong Yan, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Neil Holger White Eklund, Schenectady, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
A method to predict remaining life of a target is disclosed. The method includes receiving information regarding a behavior of the target, and identifying from a database at least one piece of equipment having similarities to the target. The method further includes retrieving from the database data prior to an end of the equipment useful life, the data having a relationship to the behavior, evaluating a similarity of the relationship, predicting the remaining life of the target based upon the similarity, and generating a signal corresponding to the predicted remaining equipment life.