Using Data-Driven Prognostic Algorithms for Completing Independent Failure Analysis
| dc.contributor.author | Losik, Len | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-02-05T18:27:44Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2016-02-05T18:27:44Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2011-10 | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0884-5123 | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0074-9079 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/595768 | en |
| dc.description | ITC/USA 2011 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-Seventh Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 24-27, 2011 / Bally's Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Current failure analysis practices use diagnostic technology developed over the past 100 years of designing and manufacturing electrical and mechanical equipment to identify root cause of equipment failure requiring expertise with the equipment under analysis. If the equipment that failed had telemetry embedded, prognostic algorithms can be used to identify the deterministic behavior in completely normal appearing data from fully functional equipment used for identifying which equipment will fail within 1 year of use, can also identify when the presence of deterministic behavior was initiated for any equipment failure. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | International Foundation for Telemetering | en |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en |
| dc.publisher | International Foundation for Telemetering | en |
| dc.relation.url | http://www.telemetry.org/ | en |
| dc.rights | Copyright © held by the author; distribution rights International Foundation for Telemetering | en |
| dc.subject | Failure Analysis | en |
| dc.subject | Independent Failure Analysis | en |
| dc.subject | Fault Analysis | en |
| dc.subject | Prognostics | en |
| dc.subject | Failure Analysis | en |
| dc.subject | Diagnostics | en |
| dc.subject | Telemetry Analysis | en |
| dc.subject | Failure Isolation | en |
| dc.subject | Identification and Recovery | en |
| dc.title | Using Data-Driven Prognostic Algorithms for Completing Independent Failure Analysis | en_US |
| dc.type | text | en |
| dc.type | Proceedings | en |
| dc.contributor.department | Failure Analysis | en |
| dc.identifier.journal | International Telemetering Conference Proceedings | en |
| dc.description.collectioninformation | Proceedings from the International Telemetering Conference are made available by the International Foundation for Telemetering and the University of Arizona Libraries. Visit http://www.telemetry.org/index.php/contact-us if you have questions about items in this collection. | en |
| refterms.dateFOA | 2018-06-16T09:21:30Z | |
| html.description.abstract | Current failure analysis practices use diagnostic technology developed over the past 100 years of designing and manufacturing electrical and mechanical equipment to identify root cause of equipment failure requiring expertise with the equipment under analysis. If the equipment that failed had telemetry embedded, prognostic algorithms can be used to identify the deterministic behavior in completely normal appearing data from fully functional equipment used for identifying which equipment will fail within 1 year of use, can also identify when the presence of deterministic behavior was initiated for any equipment failure. |
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