System health monitoring and prognostics — a review of current paradigms and practices

Abstract

System health monitoring is a set of activities performed on a system to maintain it in operable condition. Monitoring may be limited to the observation of current system states, with maintenance and repair actions prompted by these observations. Alternatively, monitoring of current system states is being augmented with prediction of future operating states and predictive diagnosis of future failure states.Such predictive diagnosis or prognosis is motivated by the need for manufacturers and other operators of complex systems to optimize equipment performance and reduce costs and unscheduled downtime. Prognosis is a difficult task requiting precise, adaptive and intuitive models to predict future machine health states. Numerous modeling techniques have been proposed in the literature and implemented in practice. This paper reviews the philosophies and techniques that focus on improving reliability and reducing unscheduled downtime by monitoring and predicting machine health.Keywords Condition-based maintenance 9 Health monitoring -Model-based diagnosis -OSA-CBM 9 Preventive maintenance 9 Reliability-centered maintenance

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