Predictive Maintenance

> **Note:** You can read more about this solution and deployment guides in the new open-source [Predictive Maintenance solution](https://github.com/Azure/AI-PredictiveMaintenance) published on GitHub. ## Overview This solution demonstrates how to combine real-time data from sensors with advanced analytics to monitor aircraft parts in real time and also predict the parts’ remaining useful life. ## Details Air travel is central to modern life, however, aircraft engines are expensive and keeping them up and running requires frequent maintenance by highly skilled technicians. Modern aircraft engines are equipped with highly sophisticated sensors to track the functioning of these machines. By combining the data from these sensors with advanced analytics, it’s possible to both monitor the aircraft in real time, as well as predict the remaining useful life of an engine component so that maintenance can be scheduled in a timely manner to prevent mechanical failures. This predictive maintenance solution monitors aircraft and predicts the remaining useful life of aircraft engine components. It is an end-to-end solution that includes data ingestion, data storage, data processing and advanced analytics — all essential for building a predictive maintenance solution. While it is customized for aircraft monitoring, it can easily be generalized for other predictive maintenance scenarios. The data source of this solution is comprised of or derived from publicly available data from the NASA data repository using the Turbofan Engine Degradation Simulation Data Set. The Deploy button will launch a workflow that will deploy an instance of the solution within a Resource Group in the Azure subscription you specify. The solution includes multiple Azure services (described below) along with a web job that simulates data so that immediately after deployment you have a working end-to-end demo. ## Technical details and workflow 1. The simulation data is streamed by a newly deployed **Azure Web Job**, AeroDataGenerator. 2. This synthetic data feeds into the **Azure Event Hubs** service as data points. 3. Two **Azure Stream Analytics** jobs analyze the data to provide near real-time analytics on the input stream from the event hub. One of the Stream Analytics jobs archives all raw incoming events to the **Azure Storage** service for later processing by the **Azure Data Factory** service, and the other publishes results onto a **Power BI** dashboard. 4. The **HDInsight** service is used to run Hive scripts (orchestrated by **Azure Data Factory**) to provide aggregations on the raw events that were archived by the aforementioned Stream Analytics job. 5. The Azure **Machine Learning** service is used (orchestrated by **Azure Data Factory**) to make predictions on the remaining useful life (RUL) of particular aircraft engine given the inputs received. 6. **Azure SQL Database** is used (managed by **Azure Data Factory**) to store the prediction results received from the **Azure Machine Learning** service. These results are then consumed in the **Power BI** dashboard. A stored procedure is deployed in the SQL Database and later invoked in Azure Data Factory pipeline to store the ML prediction results into the scoring result table. 7. **Azure Data Factory** handles orchestration, scheduling, and monitoring of the batch processing pipeline. 8. Finally, **Power BI** is used for results visualization, so that aircraft technicians can monitor the sensor data from an airplane or across the fleet in real time and use visualizations to schedule engine maintenance. ## Solution Diagram [](https://caqsres.blob.core.windows.net/predictivemaintenance/PredictiveMaintenanceDiagram.JPG) ## Disclaimer ©2017 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. This information is provided "as-is" and may change without notice. Microsoft makes no warranties, express or implied, with respect to the information provided here. Third party data was used to generate the Solution. You are responsible for respecting the rights of others, including procuring and complying with relevant licenses in order to create similar datasets.