scholarly journals Editorial

Author(s):  
Abhinav Abhinav

PHM SOCIETY established International Journal of Prognostics and Health Management (IJPHM) in 2009 to facilitate archival publication of peerreviewed results from research and development in the area of PHM. As a journal solely dedicated to the emerging field of PHM IJPHM is the first of its kind and has been a focal point for dissemination of peer-reviewed PHMknowledge. While for the first few years the journal maintained only an online presence, the printed volumes will now be available and can be obtained upon request. PHM is broader than any single field of engineering: it draws from electrical, electronics, mechanical, civil, and chemical engineering, computer and materials science, reliability, test and measurement, artificial intelligence, physics, and economics. IJPHM publishes multidisciplinary articles from industry, academia, and government in diverse application areas such as energy, aerospace, transportation, automotive, and industrial automation. IJPHM is dedicated to all aspects of PHM: technical, management, economic, and social. In addition to regular periodic volumes IJPHM also publishes special issues with quality papers dedicated to focused topics.

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyun Su Sim ◽  
Jun-Gyu Kang ◽  
Yong Soo Kim

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dangbo Du ◽  
Jianxun Zhang ◽  
Xiaosheng Si ◽  
Changhua Hu

Background: Remaining useful life (RUL) estimation is the central mission to the complex systems’ prognostics and health management. During last decades, numbers of developments and applications of the RUL estimation have proliferated. Objective: As one of the most popular approaches, stochastic process-based approach has been widely used for characterizing the degradation trajectories and estimating RULs. This paper aimed at reviewing the latest methods and patents on this topic. Methods: The review is concentrated on four common stochastic processes for degradation modelling and RUL estimation, i.e., Gamma process, Wiener process, inverse Gaussian process and Markov chain. Results: After a briefly review of these four models, we pointed out the pros and cons of them, as well as the improvement direction of each method. Conclusion: For better implementation, the applications of these four approaches on maintenance and decision-making are systematically introduced. Finally, the possible future trends are concluded tentatively.


Author(s):  
Zhimin Xi ◽  
Rong Jing ◽  
Pingfeng Wang ◽  
Chao Hu

This paper develops a Copula-based sampling method for data-driven prognostics and health management (PHM). The principal idea is to first build statistical relationship between failure time and the time realizations at specified degradation levels on the basis of off-line training data sets, then identify possible failure times for on-line testing units based on the constructed statistical model and available on-line testing data. Specifically, three technical components are proposed to implement the methodology. First of all, a generic health index system is proposed to represent the health degradation of engineering systems. Next, a Copula-based modeling is proposed to build statistical relationship between failure time and the time realizations at specified degradation levels. Finally, a sampling approach is proposed to estimate the failure time and remaining useful life (RUL) of on-line testing units. Two case studies, including a bearing system in electric cooling fans and a 2008 IEEE PHM challenge problem, are employed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methodology.


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