Facilitating the Automated Generation of Data-Driven Models for the Diagnostics and Prognostics of Technical Systems

The integration of data-driven models and specifically machine learning for conditon monitoring and predictive maintenance into companies, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, offers significant opportunities in reducing costs, operating more sustainably, and maintaining long-term competitiveness. However, many small and medium-sized enterprises lack the necessary resources and expertise to derive knowledge from data and integrate their own machine learning based solutions. To address this challenge, a framework is presented that enables the automated generation of data-driven models with a particular focus on condition monitoring and predictive maintenance, but applicable to other use cases as well. Using a dataset from the 2022 data challenge of the prognostics and health management society, it is demonstrated that the framework can generate high-performing models, achieving F1-scores up to 0.998, exemplarily for a classification task.