Operational pattern analysis for predictive maintenance scheduling of industrial systems

The paper presents a method to identify the operational usage patterns for industrial systems. Specifically, power measurements from an industrial gas turbine generator are studied. A fast Fourier transform (FFT) and image segmentation is used to develop an intuitive representation of operation. A spectrogram is adopted to study the average usage through the use of spectral power indices, with singular spectral analysis (SSA) applied for operational trend extraction. Through use of these techniques, two fundamental inputs for predictive maintenance scheduling viz. the users behaviour with regard to long-term unit startups patterns, and the duty cycle of power requirements, can be readily identified.