Production Facility Log Analysis for Unexpected Abnormality Detection

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing production facility monitoring technologies using sensor data cannot detect unmeasurable items, and those using log data can only detect abnormalities in pre-defined items, missing other potential issues.

Innovation Solution

A production facility monitoring system that determines abnormality levels based on log data by extracting text feature amounts from log data and creating a classification rule using machine learning, allowing for accurate detection of abnormalities without pre-defining target character strings or regions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If sensor data is used for facility monitoring, then measurable parameters can be monitored, but items that cannot be measured by sensors cannot be monitored

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemonitoring capabilityVSAvoidmonitoring coverage
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines sensor data and log data into a unified monitoring system. The log data processing unit extracts features from log files while the sensor data processing unit processes sensor measurements, and both are integrated in the abnormality detection unit to achieve comprehensive monitoring that covers both measurable parameters and unmeasurable items through text analysis

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Reliability

If log data monitoring is used with pre-defined items, then specific abnormalities can be detected, but abnormalities in other items cannot be detected

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedetection accuracyVSAvoiddetection scope
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements dynamic abnormality detection by learning normal log patterns during a learning period and then detecting deviations from these patterns. The detection criteria are not fixed but adapt based on learned normal behavior, allowing the system to detect abnormalities in unexpected items while maintaining high accuracy for known issues

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses feedback from learned normal log patterns to continuously improve abnormality detection. The learning unit processes normal log data to establish baseline patterns, and the abnormality detection unit uses these patterns as reference to identify deviations, creating a feedback loop that enhances both detection accuracy and scope

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Measurement precision

If text log analysis is performed without main component extraction, then all log data can be analyzed, but processing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveabnormality detection accuracyVSAvoidprocessing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments log data into main components and other components using main component extraction. This segmentation separates the most significant features from less important details, allowing the system to focus processing on key elements while reducing overall processing complexity without sacrificing detection accuracy

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentEP3699708B1Production facility monitoring device, production facility monitoring method, and production facility monitoring program
Publication Date: 2021.07.28 FUJITSU LTD
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AI summary

In order to determine an abnormal degree of a production facility on the basis of log data, a learning unit 44 learns the classification rule that classifies whether the production facility is normal or abnormal from a text feature amount on the basis of the text feature amount (for example, first main component and second main component) obtained from a number of texts included in a plurality of pieces of log data obtained in a predetermined process of the production facility and production history information of the production facility, an extraction unit 46 extracts a text feature amount of the log data to be monitored obtained in the predetermined process of the production facility, and a determination unit 48 determines whether the production facility is normal or abnormal when the log data to be monitored is obtained on the basis of the extracted text feature amount and a classification rule.