General Electric Company
Machine monitoring device

Abstract:

A machine monitoring device is provided which includes a communications link to interrogate a machine with a probe signal and receive one or more measured machine operating condition outputs; and a device controller capable of selecting a machine operating condition input variable for which a corresponding machine operating condition output is unknown; applying a predictive model in which the machine operating condition input variable serves as an argument of a predicted machine operating condition output; updating a library of predicted machine operating condition outputs; and alerting a human operator if a measured or predicted machine operating condition output exceeds a predetermined limit. The predictive model is based on at least two independent primary models having at least one correspondence between a primary model machine operating condition and a corresponding machine output. The primary models share a common basis in the predictive model.