PHME22
As a part of the European Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society 2022 (PHME22) in July 6–8, a special session about predictive maintenance will be held by researchers from Halmstad University.
ADEPT
This special sessions is called ADEPT: from algorithms to deployment of data-driven predictive maintenance: how to overcome real-world challenges and ensure successful deployment.
Predictive Maintenance aims to significantly improve upon the alternatives by creating techniques for “understanding” the individual health status of every single piece of equipment. By considering how different usage profiles influence the health management, due to global aspects (e.g. climate, education levels, and maintenance culture) or the particulars of the assignment (e.g. digging rocks or gravel, driving on the highway or in the city, etc.), it promises to deliver much more efficient operation.
Current technical developments like IoT, digitisation, big data, more efficient computing devices with cheap memory and, most importantly, new machine learning tools that exploit very large data sets, have led to the possibility of making such specific predictions with very high accuracy. Most analysts agree that the predictive maintenance market will skyrocket in the near future.
The industry is quickly moving away from hand-crafted diagnostic functions designed and tested by teams of domain expert engineers. Embracing the new developments in artificial intelligence and machine learning, however, comes with its own challenges. This special session is a prime opportunity for practitioners and the scientific community to meet and understand each other’s perspectives.
Why use predictive maintenance?
Predictive Maintenance takes advantage of sensor information to precisely follow up the exact condition of the equipment, understanding its history as well as forecasting its future usage and wear trends – in order to identify the optimum maintenance time. As unexpected downtimes and failures are becoming more costly, accurate predictions of imminent issues turn out to be crucial for highly efficient operations.
Predictive Maintenance aims not only at the early detection of faults but also to identify degraded performance and trends in product quality, providing suggestions on the best actions to remedy the problems. Recent academic developments exploit various Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence methods for fully- and semi-automated data-driven pattern recognition and knowledge creation. At the same time, successful implementation and deployment of various advanced solutions in practice, across different industries, remain challenging.
The complexities of the real world often put into question the findings from idealised, simplified research settings. In this session, we are equally interested in both the novel algorithmic advancements as well as the practical solutions to key issues faced by the commercial actors during implementation.
For whom?
This special session will be interesting both for practitioners working in the area of AI/ML (who will get a chance to better understand the challenges related to the deployment of these methods in practice), researchers with a background in other areas of PHM (who may bring cross-fertilisation from disciplines where some of the challenges has been solved in various ways), as well as for industry practitioners (who can share their experiences and challenges faced in the complex real-world settings).
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) representation learning, semi-supervised learning, active learning, fleet-based PHM, domain adaptation, deployment pipelines, tiny ML, AutoML and MLOps.
When and where?
Place: Turin, Italy
Date: July 6–8, 2022
Want to join the session?
Please submit your abstract through the conference website (see link below). Also, please send a copy of the abstract by email to the special session organisers.
Important dates:
- Submission of abstracts by February 14th, 2022
- Submission of complete papers and posters by April 3rd, 2022
Organisers
Olga Fink, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Rune Prytz, Stratio, Portugal
Slawomir Nowaczyk, Center for Applied Intelligent Systems Research, Halmstad University, Sweden
Contact
For questions contact Slawomir Nowaczyk, Professor at Halmstad University
External link.
More information
PHME22 conference website 
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