Methods and systems for detection in an industrial internet of things data collection environment with expert systems to predict failures and system state for slow rotating components
Methods and systems for a monitoring system for data collection in an industrial environment including a data collector communicatively coupled to a plurality of input channels connected to data collection points related to machine components, wherein at least one of the plurality of input channels is connected to a data collection point on a rotating machine component; a data acquisition circuit structured to interpret a plurality of detection values from the collected data, each of the plurality of detection values corresponding to at least one of the plurality of input channels; and an expert system analysis circuit structured to analyze the collected data, wherein the expert system analysis circuit determines a failure state for the rotating machine component based on analysis of the plurality of detection values, wherein upon determining the failure state the expert system analysis circuit provides the failure state to a data storage.
1. A monitoring system for data collection in an industrial environment, the system comprising:
a data collector configured to collect data related to machine components, the data collector being communicatively coupled to a plurality of input channels connected to data collection points related to machine components, at least one of the plurality of input channels being connected to a data collection point on a rotating machine component;
a data acquisition circuit structured to enable or disable processing of a plurality of detection values from the collected data based on a status of the rotating machine component, each of the plurality of detection values corresponding to at least one of the plurality of input channels; and
an expert system analysis circuit structured to:
analyze the collected data; and
determine a failure state for the rotating machine component based on analysis of the plurality of detection values; and
upon determining the failure state, provide the failure state to a data storage.
2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the rotating machine component is a slowly rotating machine component rotating at less than 36,000 RPM.
3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the slowly rotating machine component is rotating at less than 1000 RPM.
4. The system of claim 2 , wherein the slowly rotating machine component has a slow RPM setting and a high RPM setting.
5. The system of claim 4 , wherein the high RPM setting is less than 40 times the slow RPM setting.
6. The system of claim 2 , wherein three of the plurality of input channels are connected to a tri-axial sensor for monitoring different positions on the slowly rotating machine component.
7. The system of claim 2 , wherein the expert system analysis circuit analyzes a first and a second of the plurality of input channels for a relative phase determination, and wherein the expert system analysis circuit further determines the failure state in response to the relative phase determination.
8. The system of claim 1 , wherein three of the plurality of input channels are connected to a tri-axial sensor for monitoring different positions on the rotating machine component.
9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the expert system analysis circuit analyzes a first and a second of the plurality of input channels for a relative phase determination from which the data analysis circuit detects an anomalous condition for the rotating machine component.
10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the expert system analysis circuit further comprises a pattern recognition circuit structured to analyze the plurality of detection values with at least one of a neural net or an expert system for controlling data collection bands.
11. The system of claim 1 , wherein the data acquisition circuit includes at least one delta-sigma analog-to-digital converter that is configured to increase input oversampling rates.
12. The system of claim 1 , wherein the enabling or disabling the processing of a plurality of detection values comprises multiplexing the plurality of detection values.
13. The system of claim 1 , wherein the status of the rotating machine component comprises the failure state.
14. A computer-implemented method for data collection in an industrial environment, the method comprising:
collecting data from a plurality of input channels communicatively coupled to a data collector connected to data collection points related to machine components, at least one of the plurality of input channels being connected to a data collection point on a rotating machine component;
enabling or disabling processing of a plurality of detection values from the collected data based on a status of the rotating machine component, each of the plurality of detection values corresponding to at least one of the plurality of input channels; and
operating an expert system to:
analyze the collected data; and
determine a failure state for the rotating machine component based on the plurality of detection values; and
provide the failure state to a data storage.
15. The method of claim 14 , wherein the rotating machine component is a slowly rotating machine component rotating at less than 36,000 RPM.
16. The method of claim 15 , wherein three of the plurality of input channels are connected to a tri-axial sensor for monitoring different positions on the slowly rotating machine component.
17. The method of claim 15 , further comprising:
analyzing a first and a second of the plurality of input channels for a relative phase determination; and
detecting the failure state for the rotating machine component in response to the relative phase determination.
18. The method of claim 17 , further comprising operating the expert system to:
analyze the plurality of detection values; and
control data collection bands of the plurality of detection values.
19. An apparatus for monitoring data collection in an industrial environment, the apparatus comprising:
a data collector configured to collect data related to machine components, the data collector being communicatively coupled to a plurality of input channels connected to data collection points related to machine components, at least one of the plurality of input channels being connected to a data collection point on a rotating machine component;
a data acquisition circuit structured to enable or disable processing of a plurality of detection values from the collected data based on a status of the rotating machine component, each of the plurality of detection values corresponding to at least one of the plurality of input channels; and
an expert system analysis circuit structured to:
analyze the collected data;
determine one of a failure state or an anomalous condition for the rotating machine component based on the analysis of the collected data and;
communicate the one of the failure state or the anomalous condition to a data storage.
20. The apparatus of claim 19 , wherein the rotating machine component is a slowly rotating machine component rotating at less than 36,000 RPM.
21. The apparatus of claim 20 , wherein the slowly rotating machine component is rotating at less than 1000 RPM.
22. The apparatus of claim 20 , wherein the slowly rotating machine component has a slow RPM setting and a high RPM setting.