Adaptive Multi-scale Prognostics and Health Management for Smart Manufacturing Systems

The Adaptive Multi-scale Prognostics and Health Management (AM-PHM) is a methodology designed to enable PHM in smart manufacturing systems. In application, PHM information is not yet fully utilized in higher-level decisionmaking in manufacturing systems. AM-PHM leverages and integrates lower-level P...

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Main Authors: Benjamin Y. Choo, Stephen C. Adams, Brian A. Weiss, Jeremy A. Marvel, Peter A. Beling
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Prognostics and Health Management Society 2016-12-01
Series:International Journal of Prognostics and Health Management
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Online Access:https://papers.phmsociety.org/index.php/ijphm/article/view/2412
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Summary:The Adaptive Multi-scale Prognostics and Health Management (AM-PHM) is a methodology designed to enable PHM in smart manufacturing systems. In application, PHM information is not yet fully utilized in higher-level decisionmaking in manufacturing systems. AM-PHM leverages and integrates lower-level PHM information such as from a machine or component with hierarchical relationships across the component, machine, work cell and assembly line levels in a manufacturing system. The AM-PHM methodology enables the creation of actionable prognostic and diagnostic intelligence up and down the manufacturing process hierarchy. Decisions are then made with the knowledge of the current and projected health state of the system at decision points along the nodes of the hierarchical structure. To overcome the issue of exponential explosion of complexity associated with describing a large manufacturing system, the AM-PHM methodology takes a hierarchical Markov Decision Process (MDP) approach into describing the system and solving for an optimized policy. A description of the AM-PHM methodology is followed by a simulated industry-inspired example to demonstrate the effectiveness of AM-PHM.
ISSN:2153-2648
2153-2648