Journal
SENSORS
Volume 16, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/s16030316
Keywords
bearings; reliability; wavelet transform; total productive maintenance; statistical pattern recognition; fault diagnosis
Funding
- Marie Curie FP7-ITN InnHF [PITN-GA-2011-289837]
- Erasmus Mundus Action II EUROWEB+ [552125-EM-1-2014-1-SE-ERA MUNDUS-EMA21]
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The packaging materials industry has already recognized the importance of Total Productive Maintenance as a system of proactive techniques for improving equipment reliability. Bearing faults, which often occur gradually, represent one of the foremost causes of failures in the industry. Therefore, detection of their faults in an early stage is quite important to assure reliable and efficient operation. We present a new automated technique for early fault detection and diagnosis in rolling-element bearings based on vibration signal analysis. Following the wavelet decomposition of vibration signals into a few sub-bands of interest, the standard deviation of obtained wavelet coefficients is extracted as a representative feature. Then, the feature space dimension is optimally reduced to two using scatter matrices. In the reduced two-dimensional feature space the fault detection and diagnosis is carried out by quadratic classifiers. Accuracy of the technique has been tested on four classes of the recorded vibrations signals, i.e., normal, with the fault of inner race, outer race, and ball operation. The overall accuracy of 98.9% has been achieved. The new technique can be used to support maintenance decision-making processes and, thus, to increase reliability and efficiency in the industry by preventing unexpected faulty operation of bearings.
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