Casestudie Breakdown prediction Contell PILOT - Transumo
Casestudie Breakdown prediction Contell PILOT - Transumo
Casestudie Breakdown prediction Contell PILOT - Transumo
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Remarkable is a comparison to the actually applied method of setting a higher<br />
maximum temperature limit, which was used to reduce the quantity of false alarms. 84<br />
Data analysis discovered that this set temperature limit was exceeded 152 times. In<br />
case of an unchanged temperature limit of 6°C, this number would have increased to<br />
158. Hence, this method saved 6 alarms but increased the notification delay in case<br />
of a real malfunction.<br />
6.3 Review<br />
Section 5.10.4 already pointed out the estimated improvements that might be<br />
achieved by using the suggested statistical and data mining methods. This section<br />
will review whether these estimated improvements really occurred.<br />
First of all, descriptive statistics led to the estimation that the currently limited ability<br />
to detect changes on the short-run may be improved. An appliance to the selected<br />
sample dataset showed that major changes in general cooling behavior were actually<br />
detected. Moreover, an adjustment to different security levels can be achieved by<br />
selecting bigger or smaller deltas. Only the appliance to daytime data does not<br />
provide reliable notifications, so that changes can only be recognized from morning<br />
to morning. But as this method recognized previously unknown irregularities, it<br />
definitely improves the recognition on the short-run.<br />
In addition to that, the appliance of regression provided very good results. The<br />
determined function had a very good fit ( R<br />
2 = 0. 97492 ) and contained a gradient that<br />
described the really occurred temperature increase well. Hence, as long as the<br />
monitoring data is not faced with too many influences that lead to a fit less than 0.9,<br />
this method is able to reliably detect changes in behavior on the long-run.<br />
Section 5.10.4 pointed out that the combination of basic statistics and regression<br />
could lead to a limited ability to predict upcoming failures. In fact, both methods<br />
detected changes in behavior, but the cooling device kept on functioning. Hence, the<br />
gained results could be an indication for an upcoming malfunction but do not have to<br />
be. Moreover, the optimization of the cooling device’s usage by analyzing door<br />
openings cannot be assured within this diploma thesis but has to be tested in<br />
practice.<br />
The appliance of data mining confirmed the estimated improvements. The gain of<br />
additional system states improved the previously limited possibility to classify the<br />
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