INDUSTRIAL ASSET HEALTH PROFILE

• US 20140358601A1
• Filed: 06/03/2013
• Published: 12/04/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/03/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Energy Limited (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: ABB Research Ltd. (ABB Limited)
• Inventors: Smiley, Karen J., Mahate, Shakeel M., Wood, Paul F., Hou, Chihhung
• Granted Patent: US 9,665,843 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7.11
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0635 Risk analysis of enterprise or organisation activities

Abstract

Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are provided for developing a health profile of an industrial asset based upon data pertaining to such an industrial asset. At least some of the data is transformed into primary state indicators, respectively representative of the status or condition of an aspect of the industrial asset. Using the primary state indicators, one or more events that are likely to occur to the industrial asset are identified and a health profile is developed based upon such events. The health profile may describe maintenance actions that will reduce a likelihood of an event(s) occurring, may describe a business impact on an entity associated with the industrial asset if an event(s) occurs, and/or may describe a performance impact on the industrial asset if an event(s) occurs, for example.

Claims

1. A system for developing a health profile of an industrial asset, comprising:

a transformation application component configured to apply a first transform to a first portion of data pertaining to the industrial asset to derive a first primary state indicator;

a mapping component configured to map the first primary state indicator to an event that, based upon a status of the first primary state indicator, is likely to occur to the industrial asset; and

a development component configured to develop the health profile of the industrial asset based upon the event.

2. The system of claim 1, the health profile comprising a health action aspect describing at least one of a maintenance action, a diagnostic action, or an operational action.

3. The system of claim 2, the health action aspect describing a first impact that a first action will likely have on a health of the industrial asset and a second impact that a second action will likely have on the health of the industrial asset.

4. The system of claim 1, the health profile comprising at least one of:

a health condition aspect describing one or more conditions of the industrial asset during a specified health period represented by the health profile;

or

a health event aspect describing a likely business impact on an entity associated with the industrial asset if the event does occur.

5. The system of claim 1, the health profile comprising a health event aspect describing a likely performance impact to the industrial asset if the event does occur.

6. The system of claim 1, the mapping component configured to output a confidence profile indicative of a likelihood of the event occurring.

7. The system of claim 6, the confidence profile based upon a quality of the first portion of data.

8. The system of claim 1, the transformation application component configured to apply a second transform to a second portion of data pertaining to the industrial asset to derive a second primary state indicator.

9. The system of claim 8, comprising a combination component configured to combine the first primary state indicator with the second primary state indicator to generate a secondary state indicator.

10. The system of claim 9, the mapping component configured to map the secondary state indicator to a second event that, based upon a status of the secondary state indicator, is likely to occur to the industrial asset.

11. The system of claim 1, the data representative of at least one of measurements or observations recorded during a specified data collection period and the health profile representative of a health of the industrial asset during a specified health period, the specified data collection period different than the specified health period.

12. The system of claim 1, at least one of:

the data comprising observational data representative of at least one of a video recording, a still image, an audio recording, or a chemical analysis of an area proximate the industrial asset, or

the data yielded from a robotic inspection of the industrial asset.

13. A method for developing a health profile of an industrial asset, comprising:

acquiring data pertaining to the industrial asset;

applying a first transform to at least some of the data to derive a first primary state indicator;

mapping the first primary state indicator to an event that, based upon a status of the first primary state indicator, is likely to occur to the industrial asset; and

developing the health profile of the industrial asset based upon the event.

14. The method of claim 13, the primary state indicator indicative of a condition of one or more aspects of the industrial asset.

15. The method of claim 13, the health profile comprising a health action aspect describing at least one of a maintenance action, a diagnostic action, or an operational action.

16. The method of claim 15, the health action aspect describing a first impact that a first action will likely have on a health of the industrial asset and a second impact that a second action will likely have on the health of the industrial asset.

17. The method of claim 13, the health profile comprising a health event aspect describing a likely business impact on an entity associated with the industrial asset if the event does occur.

18. The method of claim 13, the health profile comprising a health event aspect describing a likely performance impact to the industrial asset if the event does occur.

19. The method of claim 13, comprising:

applying a second transform to at least some of the data to derive a second primary state indicator;

combining the first primary state indicator with the second primary state indicator to generate a secondary state indicator; and

mapping the secondary state indicator to a second event that, based upon a status of the secondary state indicator, is likely to occur to the industrial asset.

20. A computer readable medium comprising processor executable instructions that when executed via a processing unit perform a method, comprising:

acquiring data pertaining to an industrial asset, the data representative of at least one of measurements or observations recorded during a specified data collection period;

applying a first transform to at least some of the data to derive a first primary state indicator;

mapping the first primary state indicator to an event that, based upon a status of the first primary state indicator, is likely to occur to the industrial asset during a specified health period; and

developing the health profile of the industrial asset indicative of a health of the industrial asset during the specified health period based upon the event, wherein the health profile comprises at least one of;

a health action aspect describing a maintenance action, a diagnostic action, or an operational action,

a health event aspect describing a likely business impact on an entity associated with the industrial asset if the event does occur, or

a health event aspect describing a likely performance impact to the industrial asset if the event does occur.