This invention describes a system designed to prevent industrial machine breakdowns. It works by continuously monitoring various sensors on a machine and using a mathematical model to determine specific "pre-error" limits for key sensor readings. The system then alerts operators, often through a visual display, if a sensor's data approaches its pre-error limit, allowing for intervention before a failure occurs. The claims specifically focus on setting these pre-error limits and selecting the most relevant sensors for monitoring.
Why it matters: The core machine learning and statistical methods were available in 2021. However, the subsequent maturation of MLOps platforms and industrial IoT data integration tools has significantly streamlined the deployment and management of such predictive maintenance systems in real-world industrial settings. The primary remaining hurdle is acquiring sufficient, high-quality historical operational data for training the models.
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