A system that allows a contractor to remotely monitor and/or interact with its customers' building control systems, such as heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, and analyze information obtained from the building control systems over time. Such a system may help the contractor monitor and diagnosis customer building control systems, setup service calls, achieve better customer relations, create more effective marketing opportunities, as well as other functions. In some cases, the disclosed system may include a controller that analyzes data from HVAC systems, determines a thermal model of a space environmentally controlled by an HVAC system, and provides an energy audit of the space that is environmentally controlled by the HVAC system. The controller may output a result of the energy audit to a user.

A computer-implemented method to control technical equipment that performs a production batch-run of a production process, the technical equipment providing data in a form of time-series from a set of data sources, the data sources being related to the technical equipment, includes: accessing a reference time-series with data from a previously performed batch-run of the production process, the reference time-series being related to a parameter for the technical equipment; and while the technical equipment performs the production batch-run: receiving a production time-series with data, identifying a sub-series of the reference time-series, and comparing the received time-series and the sub-series of the reference time-series, to provide an indication of similarity or non-similarity, in case of similarity, controlling the technical equipment during a continuation of the production batch-run, by using the parameter as control parameter.

Distributed analytics system used to control the operation of at least one monitored system; the system includes an architect subsystem and an edge subsystem, wherein the edge subsystem comprises at least one edge processing device associated with at least one monitored system. The architect subsystem deploys at least one analytic model to an edge processing device based on characteristics of a monitored system associated with the edge processing device, the analytic model to be used by the edge processing device to provide control signals to a monitored system; and, receives information related to the monitored system from the edge processing device, the information utilized by the architect subsystem to modify the analytic model deployed to the at least one edge processing device to improve system performance of the monitored system. An edge processing device receives an analytic model from the architect subsystem; provides control signals to the monitored system according to the analytic model; and, sends information related to the monitored system to the architect subsystem, the information to be used by the architect subsystem to modify the analytic model to improve system performance of the monitored system.

A fault prediction system based on sensor data on a numerical control machine tool and a method therefor. The fault prediction system includes a plurality of sensors for collecting numerical control machine tool operation state data serving as multi-channel data, wherein an output end of a sensor is connected to an input end of a multi-channel sensor interface circuit, and an output end of the multi-channel sensor interface circuit is connected to a controller. The plurality of sensors can be multi-path temperature sensors, multi-path vibration sensors or multi-path noise sensors. The defects in the prior art of there being no model for researching a cross correlation of multi-channel data, collected by a plurality of sensors, of an operation state of a numerical control machine tool, and a device fault subspace of the multi-channel data being unable to be obtained are effectively prevented.

A system for predicting machine failure may include a controller for controlling a machine, a plurality of sensors, a plugin device, a first computing device, a second computing device, and/or a third computing device. The sensors and/or the plugin device may be communicatively coupled to the controller. The first computing device may be communicatively coupled to the plugin device. The plugin device may transmit data associated with the machine to the first computing device. The first computing device may execute at least one low fidelity model to determine an interesting event associated with the machine. The second computing device may be communicatively coupled to the first computing device. The first computing device may transmit data associated with the interesting event to the second computing device. The second computing device may execute at least one high fidelity model to determine a machine failure prediction.

An information processing apparatus includes a controller. The controller is configured to obtain a measurement value of a sensor provided in mechanical equipment. The controller is configured to generate a first model by machine learning using the measurement value of the sensor measured in a first period of the mechanical equipment and store the first model in a storage portion. The controller is configured to generate a second model by machine learning using the measurement value of the sensor measured in a second period after a trigger event has occurred in the mechanical equipment and store the second model in the storage portion. The controller is configured to determine a state of the mechanical equipment by using the measurement value of the sensor measured in an evaluation period and the first model and the second model stored in the storage portion.

A control system for a gas turbine includes a processor. The processor configured to access one or more operating parameters of the gas turbine. The operating parameters are configured to specify how the gas turbine operates. The processor is configured to predict a rate of degradation to one or more parts of a compressor of the gas turbine due to one or more effects on the parts by operating the gas turbine according to the one or more operating parameters. The processor is configured to send an alert to an electronic device based at least in part on the rate of degradation of the compressor.

This device includes an acquired data storing unit for storing acquired data about a current command value of a servo motor configuring a robot drive system; a tendency diagnosis unit for diagnosing a future changing tendency of the current command value based on the data of the current command value stored in the acquired data storing unit; and a life determining unit for determining a term until the current command value reaches a previously set value based on the future changing tendency of the current command value acquired by the tendency diagnosis unit. Thus, a residual life of the robot drive system can be accurately predicted.

A communication system and method that provides predictive and prescriptive analytics for a system running at an edge. In one embodiment, the communication system includes an architect subsystem configured to build, test and deploy a model based on sensor characteristics of the system. The sensor characteristics are from at least one of an operator input, a historical input, a specification input, and a subject-matter expert input. The communication system also includes an edge subsystem configured to receive said model and perform predictive and prescriptive analytics on sensor data from said system running on said model deployed at said edge.

To determine a quality indicator of production batch-run of a production process, a computer compares time-series with multi-source data from a reference batch-run and time-series with multi-source data from the production batch-run. Before comparing, the computer converts multi-variate time-series to uni-variate time-series, by first multiplying data values of source-specific uni-variate time-series with source-specific factors from a conversion factor vector and second summing up the multiplied data values according to discrete time points. The source-specific factors of the conversion factor vector are obtained earlier by processing reference data, including the determination of characteristic portions of the time-series, converting, aligning by time-warping and evaluating displacement in time between characteristic portions before alignment and after alignment.