Intermediate · 30 min · 4 steps

Spotting a faulty machine by comparing it with its own normal

Sameer Kulkarni, Industrial IoT Analytics Lead at Apex Precision Manufacturing

It is Thursday, 7:45 AM. Sameer Kulkarni is the industrial IoT analytics lead at Apex Precision Manufacturing. He is called to an urgent maintenance meeting at the Pune plant. Apex runs six factories in Maharashtra and Gujarat that make precise car gearbox gears. Every machine has sensors that measure vibration, temperature and electric current.

The question

How do we find each sensor's own normal level and normal spread, so that we can spot readings that are far from normal?

  • Statistical anomaly detection
  • AVG & STDDEV
  • Z-score modeling
  • CTEs

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