Predictive Analytics with Microsoft Azure Machine Learning, Second Edition

CHAPTER 11

Building Predictive Maintenance Models

Leading manufacturers are now investing in predictive maintenance, which holds the potential to reduce cost, increase margin and customer satisfaction. Though traditional techniques from statistics and manufacturing have helped, the industry is still plagued by serious quality issues and the high cost of business disruption when components fail. Advances in machine learning offer a unique opportunity to reduce cost and improve customer satisfaction. This chapter will show how to build models for predictive maintenance using Microsoft Azure Machine Learning. Through examples we will demonstrate ...