Machine Fault Diagnosis and Prognosis using Self- Organizing Map

This chapter proposes a Self-Organizing Map (SOM) method for fault diagnosis and prognosis of manufacturing systems, machines, components, and processes. The aim of this work is to optimize the condition monitoring of the health of the system. With this method, manufacturing faults can be classified, and the degradations can be predicted very effectively and clearly. A good maintenance scheduling can then be created, and the number of corrective maintenance actions can be reduced. The results of the experiment show that the SOM method can be used to classify the fault and predict the degradation of machines, components, and processes effectively, clearly, and easily.