TITLE:
Failure Prediction and Intelligent Maintenance of a Transportation Company’s Urban Fleet
AUTHORS:
Crépin Foké, Jean-Pierre Kenné, Ngongang Somen Bill Diego
KEYWORDS:
Maintenance 4.0, Digital Technologies, Failureprediction, Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence, Prediction Algorithm
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Transportation Technologies,
Vol.13 No.1,
January
11,
2023
ABSTRACT: The present work deals with intelligent vehicle fleet maintenance and
prediction. We propose an approach based primarily on the history of failures
data and on the geographical data system. The objective here is to predict the
date of failures for a fleet of vehicles in order to allow the maintenance
department to efficiently deploy the proper resources; we further provide
specific details regarding the origins of failures, and finally, give
recommendations. This study used the Société de transport de Montréal (STM)’s
historical bus failure data as well as weather data from Environment Canada. We
thank Facebook’s Prophet, Simple Feed-forward, and Beats algorithms (Uber), we
proposed a set of computer codes that allow us to identify the 20% of buses
that are responsible for the 80% of failures by mean of the failure history.
Then, we deepened our study on the unreliable equipments identified during the
diffusion of our computer code This allowed us to propose probable predictions of the dates of future
failures. To ensure the validity of the proposed algorithm, we carried out
simulations with more than 250,000
data. The results obtained are similar to the predicted theoretical values.