June 23 rd 2015 Research Area: Reliability Engineering Institute of Machine Components Failure Prediction By Means Of Advanced Usage Data Analysis Reliability of Accelerators for Accelerator Driven Systems CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015 Dipl.-Ing. Frank Jakob Dipl.-Ing. Mathias Botzler Dr.-Ing. Peter Zeiler Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Bertsche Institute of Machine Components Reliability Engineering Based on the ASQ-Best-Paper of RAMS 2014 with the same title
June 23 rd 2015 Research Area: Reliability Engineering Institute of Machine Components Failure Prediction By Means Of Advanced Usage Data Analysis Outline IIntroduction and Motivation BBasic Idea MMethod DData Basis DData Combination a-Method DData Combination b-Method AAspects of Application RResults and Conclusion 2
June 23 rd 2015 Research Area: Reliability Engineering Institute of Machine Components Failure Prediction By Means Of Advanced Usage Data Analysis Component wear affects reliability performace Components Ageing and Fatigue Wear-out Entire System Long lifetimes High reliability Achieved through maintenance Timely replacement 3
June 23 rd 2015 Research Area: Reliability Engineering Institute of Machine Components Failure Prediction By Means Of Advanced Usage Data Analysis Failure prediction enhances classic diagnosis Classic Diagnosis Condition monitoring Sharp fault criteria Clear failure indicators Reactive Limited / Expensive 4 Probability based diagnosis Probability solely based on previous usage and Independent of condition Over a given timespan
June 23 rd 2015 Research Area: Reliability Engineering Institute of Machine Components Failure Prediction By Means Of Advanced Usage Data Analysis Predicted failures must be usage induced Wear out behavior Increasing failure rate Probability of failure increases with usage Condition of component worsens For Weibull: b>1 5 To predict a failure based on previous usage, the underlying failure mechanism must be usage-driven: It must be wear out.
June 23 rd 2015 Research Area: Reliability Engineering Institute of Machine Components Failure Prediction By Means Of Advanced Usage Data Analysis Outline Introduction and Motivation Basic Idea Method Data Basis Data Combination a-Method Data Combination b-Method Aspects of Application Results and Conclusion 6
June 23 rd 2015 Research Area: Reliability Engineering Institute of Machine Components Failure Prediction By Means Of Advanced Usage Data Analysis Availability of usage data improves predictions Failure e.g. mileage100k200k 300k Weighted usage t Suspension Sampled systems e.g. mileage 100k200k 300k Single System Weighted usage t 7 F F F F F F F F Distribution Weighted usage t
June 23 rd 2015 Research Area: Reliability Engineering Institute of Machine Components Failure Prediction By Means Of Advanced Usage Data Analysis _______ 1) Fictive Numbers Example 1) : Prediction of starter failures (# of cranks; engine oil temperature) Case# cranks Case# cranksweighted ϑ oil total Sensible weighting of data increases sharpness 8
June 23 rd 2015 Research Area: Reliability Engineering Institute of Machine Components Failure Prediction By Means Of Advanced Usage Data Analysis Outline Introduction and Motivation Basic Idea Method Data Basis Data Combination a-Method Data Combination b-Method Aspects of Application Results and Conclusion 9
June 23 rd 2015 Research Area: Reliability Engineering Institute of Machine Components Failure Prediction By Means Of Advanced Usage Data Analysis Rotational speed turbo charger Engine oil temperature Engine speed / torque Number of Starts ... Battery SOC / ambient temperature Vehicle speed / gear in Clutch slip (kiss point) Steering angle Axle loads ... Lateral acceleration Longitudinal acceleration Duty cycles air compressor Brake pressure / vehicle speed ... Use data from existing sources for further analysis 10
June 23 rd 2015 Research Area: Reliability Engineering Institute of Machine Components Failure Prediction By Means Of Advanced Usage Data Analysis Available data is processed to usage matrices Limitations Availability of signals Integrated sensors Memory usage Correlations A-Priori decisions Torque and engine speed 1) Engine speed (Rainflow) 1) _______ 1) Fictive Examples Data Collection Data and signals from ECU become available Binned and counted Usage matrices Low memory requirements 11
June 23 rd 2015 Research Area: Reliability Engineering Institute of Machine Components Failure Prediction By Means Of Advanced Usage Data Analysis Outline Introduction and Motivation Basic Idea Method Data Basis Data Combination a-Method Data Combination b-Method Aspects of Application Results and Conclusion 12
June 23 rd 2015 Research Area: Reliability Engineering Institute of Machine Components Failure Prediction By Means Of Advanced Usage Data Analysis a-Method: Knowledge for weighting and condensing Physical Weighting Acceleration factors Standards Expert knowledge Physics of Failure … 13
June 23 rd 2015 Research Area: Reliability Engineering Institute of Machine Components Failure Prediction By Means Of Advanced Usage Data Analysis Outline Introduction and Motivation Basic Idea Method Data Basis Data Combination a-Method Data Combination b-Method Aspects of Application Results and Conclusion 14
June 23 rd 2015 Research Area: Reliability Engineering Institute of Machine Components Failure Prediction By Means Of Advanced Usage Data Analysis b-Method step 1: Normalization of diverse data 15 Case# cranks ϑ oil Normalization Dimensionless numbers Similar magnitude order Important prerequisite for combination # cranks normalized
June 23 rd 2015 Research Area: Reliability Engineering Institute of Machine Components Failure Prediction By Means Of Advanced Usage Data Analysis b-Method step 2: Numeric weighting of diverse data 16 Optimization Variation of b-parameters Spread of F(t) changes Minimization of spread with optimization algorithm (e.g. evolutionary) The optimal set of b-parameters maps usage data over true wear- out mechanisms. The resulting spread will thus be minimal.
June 23 rd 2015 Research Area: Reliability Engineering Institute of Machine Components Failure Prediction By Means Of Advanced Usage Data Analysis First experience with real data shows decent results 17 Spread-Minimum, mixing (Brute Force, 3 b-parameters) Failure probabilities after evolutionary optimization (>10 b-parameters)
June 23 rd 2015 Research Area: Reliability Engineering Institute of Machine Components Failure Prediction By Means Of Advanced Usage Data Analysis With combined application, strengths come to shine 18
June 23 rd 2015 Research Area: Reliability Engineering Institute of Machine Components Failure Prediction By Means Of Advanced Usage Data Analysis Outline Introduction and Motivation Basic Idea Method Data Basis Data Combination a-Method Data Combination b-Method Aspects of Application Results and Conclusion 19
June 23 rd 2015 Research Area: Reliability Engineering Institute of Machine Components Failure Prediction By Means Of Advanced Usage Data Analysis Basis: 3par Weibull b=2 t 0 =3;4;5 T=t 0 +3 Influences Cost of premature exchange Wasted lifetime in distribution tail Cost of failure is purely customer induced The more likely a future failure, the more desirable preventive measures Economic benefit depends on exterior factors Preventive decisions highly depend on boundary conditions 20 Influence of failure free period Costs Cost of component 0% 50% 100% Cost of failure benefit loss
June 23 rd 2015 Research Area: Reliability Engineering Institute of Machine Components Failure Prediction By Means Of Advanced Usage Data Analysis Outline Introduction and Motivation Basic Idea Method Data Basis Data Combination a-Method Data Combination b-Method Aspects of Application Results and Conclusion 21
June 23 rd 2015 Research Area: Reliability Engineering Institute of Machine Components Failure Prediction By Means Of Advanced Usage Data Analysis Results and Conclusion Motivation: Components of reliable systems can be prone to wear Goal: Prediction of wear failures Sources: ECU data to be used in reliability analysis Method: Analysis with and without knowledge a-Method b-Method First Results: Method was successfully applied to real field data Decision-Making: Trade-Off is highly individual Method for reliability analyses with lots of information on failures Outlook: Validation requires failures 22
June 23 rd 2015 Research Area: Reliability Engineering Institute of Machine Components Failure Prediction By Means Of Advanced Usage Data Analysis References (1/2) B. Bertsche, Reliability in Automotive and Mechanical Engineering, Berlin: Springer, M. Botzler, P. Zeiler, and B. Bertsche, “Failure Prediction By Means Of Advanced Usage Data Analysis,” in Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, T. Duchesne, “Multiple Time Scales in Survival Analysis,” Diss, University, Waterloo (Ontario), I. Gertsbakh, Reliability Theory: With applications to preventive maintenance, Berlin: Springer, P. D. T. O'Connor, Practical reliability engineering, 5 th ed. Chichester: Wiley,
June 23 rd 2015 Research Area: Reliability Engineering Institute of Machine Components Failure Prediction By Means Of Advanced Usage Data Analysis References (2/2) C. Prothmann, M. Kokes, and S. Liu, “Deterioration modeling strategy for pro-active services of commercial vehicles,” Proceedings of the 2010 American Controls Conference (ACC 2010), 2010, pp. 6157–6162. M. Maisch, “Reliability Based Test Concept for Commercial Vehicle Transmissions in Consideration of Operation Data,” Diss. (published in German), IMA, University, Stuttgart,
June 23 rd 2015 Research Area: Reliability Engineering Institute of Machine Components 25 Thank you for your attention! University of Stuttgart Institute of Machine Components Dipl.-Ing. Frank Jakob Pfaffenwaldring Stuttgart Germany Phone: Fax: Web: