A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal

A hierarchical Bayesian regression framework for enabling online reliability estimation and condition-based maintenance through accelerated testing




AuthorsLeoni Leonardo, De Carlo Filippo, Abaei Mohammad Mahdi, BahooToroody Ahmad

PublisherElsevier

Publication year2022

Journal:Computers in Industry

Article number103645

Volume139

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.compind.2022.103645

Web address https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166361522000422


Abstract

Thanks to the advances in the Internet of Things (IoT), Condition-based Maintenance (CBM) has progressively become one of the most renowned strategies to mitigate the risk arising from failures. Within any CBM framework, non-linear correlation among data and variability of condition monitoring data sources are among the main reasons that lead to a complex estimation of Reliability Indicators (RIs). Indeed, most classic approaches fail to fully consider these aspects. This work presents a novel methodology that employs Accelerated Life Testing (ALT) as multiple sources of data to define the impact of relevant PVs on RIs, and subsequently, plan maintenance actions through an online reliability estimation. For this purpose, a Generalized Linear Model (GLM) is exploited to model the relationship between PVs and an RI, while a Hierarchical Bayesian Regression (HBR) is implemented to estimate the parameters of the GLM. The HBR can deal with the aforementioned uncertainties, allowing to get a better explanation of the correlation of PVs. We considered a numerical example that exploits five distinct operating conditions for ALT as a case study. The developed methodology provides asset managers a solid tool to estimate online reliability and plan maintenance actions as soon as a given condition is reached.



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