Dry Pump Shutdown Early Warning Using Kalman Prediction

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Solution Overview

Problem

Dry pump shutdowns in the panel industry lead to loss of control over product quality, increased maintenance costs, and capacity losses due to inefficient maintenance methods and low accuracy in monitoring systems.

Innovation Solution

A method and apparatus for early warning of dry pump shutdown using historical operating data to build a Kalman filter model, predict future operating data, and train a shutdown prediction model, which filters out invalid data and normalizes the data for accurate shutdown risk prediction.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional monitoring systems are used to track dry pump operation, then device management is simplified, but the accuracy of shutdown prediction is low leading to passive maintenance

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveshutdown prediction accuracyVSAvoidmonitoring system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by collecting historical operating data and training prediction models in advance. The shutdown prediction model is trained offline using historical data, and then used for real-time prediction, allowing the system to prepare maintenance actions before actual shutdown occurs

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces traditional mechanical monitoring systems with data-driven prediction models. Instead of using complex physical sensors and mechanical monitoring equipment, the system uses machine learning models (LSTM, XGBoost, Random Forest) that process operating data to predict shutdown risks, substituting mechanical complexity with computational intelligence

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Productivity

If reactive maintenance is performed after dry pump shutdown, then maintenance costs increase and production capacity is lost, but implementing predictive maintenance requires advanced data processing

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveproduction capacityVSAvoiddata processing system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables self-service by automatically collecting operating data, training prediction models, and generating maintenance recommendations without requiring external expert intervention. The model continuously learns from historical data and autonomously predicts shutdown risks, allowing the equipment to essentially monitor and warn about its own health status

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback mechanisms where prediction results are continuously monitored and used to improve future predictions. The model is retrained periodically with new historical data, creating a closed-loop system where past performance informs future accuracy, and maintenance actions are adjusted based on prediction outcomes

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Reliability

If spare parts are not properly managed, then maintenance costs increase and quality control is lost, but implementing predictive maintenance requires sophisticated modeling

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvequality controlVSAvoidprediction model complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by predicting shutdown risks before they occur, allowing advance preparation of spare parts and maintenance resources. The multi-model prediction approach (LSTM for temporal patterns, XGBoost and Random Forest for feature importance) identifies trends early, enabling proactive quality control measures

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system monitors and analyzes changes in operating parameters over time to predict shutdown risks. By tracking variations in vibration, temperature, pressure, and other parameters through the prediction models, the system detects early signs of degradation that indicate quality issues before they affect production

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS20240185115A1Method and apparatus for early warning of dry pump shutdown, electronic device, storage medium and program
Publication Date: 2024.06.06 BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO LTD
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AI summary

The disclosure provides a method and apparatus for early warning of dry pump shutdown, an electronic device, a storage medium and a program, and belongs to the technical field of automatic control. The method comprises: obtaining historical operating data of a dry pump; building a Kalman filter model by using the historical operating data; predicting predicted operating data of the dry pump through the Kalman filter model; training a shutdown prediction model by using the historical operating data and the predicted operating data; and inputting current operating data of the dry pump into the trained shutdown prediction model to obtain shutdown early warning information of the dry pump.