Classification model for predictive maintenance of small steam sterilisers
With 35,000 small steam sterilisers in the German market, after-sales service and maintenance are critical issues for manufacturers and distributors. At present, preventive maintenance is one of the most commonly-implemented maintenance strategies. However, with an average failure probability of 10%...
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Language: | English |
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John Wiley & Sons
2020
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Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/88166/1/ABSTRACT.pdf http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/88166/ https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/iet-cim.2019.0029 |
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Summary: | With 35,000 small steam sterilisers in the German market, after-sales service and maintenance are critical issues for manufacturers and distributors. At present, preventive maintenance is one of the most commonly-implemented maintenance strategies. However, with an average failure probability of 10%, ∼3500 autoclaves require unplanned repair per year, causing customers’ business interruptions and increased maintenance costs. From the authors’ observation, a predictive failure detection mechanism is needed to prevent failures and reduce the significant safety risk. Hence, this study proposes a predictive maintenance mechanism for small steam sterilisers. The predictive maintenance mechanism is constructed from classification models that categorised the health condition of two critical components in small steam sterilisers, i.e. a vacuum pump and a steam generator. The classification models were built from multisensory data, obtained from 1000 protocol records of CertoClav Vacuum Pro steam sterilisers. They perform exploratory experiments to find a suitable classification model. This study found that the random forest algorithm performed best in terms of accuracy for both the vacuum pump and steam generator data sets (83.5 and 82.0%, respectively). They also found that the features related to the pre-vacuum stage profoundly influence the condition of the vacuum pump and the steam generator. |
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