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Title: Moving towards Real-time Data-driven Quality Monitoring: A Case Study of Hard Disk Drives
Since its emergence, the cloud manufacturing concept has been transforming the manufacturing and remanufacturing industry into a big data and service-oriented environment. The aggressive push toward data collection in cloud-based and cyber-physical systems provides both challenges and opportunities for predictive analytics. One of the key applications of predictive analytics in such domains is predictive quality management that aims to fully exploit the potentials provided by the enormous data collected via cloud-based systems. As a case study, a data set of hard disk drives’ Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) attributes from a cloud-storage service provider has been analyzed to derive some insights about the challenges and opportunities of using product lifecycle data. An analysis of time-to-failure monitoring of hard disk drives in real-time has been carried out and the corresponding challenges have been discussed.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1705621
PAR ID:
10065240
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Procedia Manufacturing, SME North American Manufacturing Research Conference
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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