Perspective Chapter: Data Mining in Electrical Machine Maintenance Reports

Abstract

Industrial electrical machine maintenance logs pertinent information, such as fault causality and earlier indications, in the form of a semi-standardized report, previously written and now in digital form. New practices in predictive maintenance, state-of-the-art condition monitoring, include increasing applications of machine learning. Reports contain a large volume of natural text in various languages and semantics, proving costly for feature extraction. This chapter aims to present novel techniques in information extraction to enable literature access to this untapped information reserve. A high level of correlation between text features and fault causality is noted, encouraging research for extended application in the scope of electrical machine maintenance, especially in artificial intelligence indication detection training. Furthermore, these innovative models can be used for decision-making during the repair. Information from well-trained classifiers can be extrapolated to advance fault causality understanding.