Casestudie Breakdown prediction Contell PILOT - Transumo
Casestudie Breakdown prediction Contell PILOT - Transumo
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explained in section 5.4. If such a trend is available, it can be removed from the<br />
existing data, so that the residual components can be determined. A time series<br />
without a trend is called stationary ([Chatfield04], p. 13). In fact, most methods<br />
require stationary time series data.<br />
After obtaining the trend, seasonal and other cyclic variations can be determined.<br />
This is done, for instance, by the use of the periodogram method. The general idea is<br />
to determine the distances to the trend function and to discover regular patterns. 51<br />
But as already mentioned in section 5.4.2, a <strong>prediction</strong> of an upcoming malfunction is<br />
not possible because every significant rise in temperature would lead to such a<br />
<strong>prediction</strong>. Moreover, the very low probability of a real malfunction 52 in combination<br />
with randomly occurring external influences have to be classified as irregular<br />
variations. Faced with these significant irregular variations, time series analysis is not<br />
able to offer additional improvements, compared to regression.<br />
5.6 Failure- and Availability Ratios<br />
Common within the settings of quality assurance and condition monitoring are<br />
operating ratios that specify the availability of systems and their tendency to run into<br />
failure.<br />
Common ratios to define this behavior are the “mean time to failure” (abbr. MTTF),<br />
the “mean time between failures” (abbr. MTBF) and the “mean time to repair” (abbr.<br />
MTTR). The first two measures characterize the average time a unit is working<br />
correctly before breaking down. The only difference between MTTF and MTBF is that<br />
the first one is used for parts that cannot or should not be repaired, but replaced. The<br />
second one is used for giving the average time between two necessary repairs of<br />
high value parts. The MTTR characterizes the average time the repairing takes.<br />
([Masing88], p. 113)<br />
These ratios can be used to specify the availability of systems by using the Formula<br />
5-10. This availability allows probability calculations, whether a system can be used<br />
during a specified time.<br />
51 See (e.g. [Bourier03], p. 180-189) for details<br />
52 See section 2.2.5 for details<br />
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