Self-directed project
Predictive Maintenance: Industrial ML for Fault Detection
Condition-Monitoring Engineer · AI / ML · July 2026
A ProoV case study · educational project, not employment
Built a compact rolling-bearing fault detector end to end: engineered time-domain features, used envelope-spectrum energy at supplied defect frequencies to localize the fault, trained a shallow decision tree on training bearings only, and evaluated it on a held-out set with catch-rate and false-alarm metrics. The candidate also defended a 0.40 alarm threshold with explicit cost reasoning and translated the result into a clear maintenance recommendation.
Graded against
- Feature engineering (signal to honest numbers)25%
- Held-out evaluation (honest measurement)25%
- Cost-based threshold decision + memo25%
- Compact model + embedded-budget justification15%
- Plain-language explanation10%
Passed · pass mark 60/100
What stood out6
- Trained a depth-capped decision tree on training bearings only and stated a small tree size (depth 1, 3 nodes) against the embedded budget.
- Reported held-out catch-rate and false-alarm rate rather than evaluating on training data.
- Wrote a maintenance memo that ties the threshold choice to concrete costs and explicitly identifies the outer race via BPFO dominance.
- Leakage-Free Model Training
- Honest Held-Out Evaluation
- Physics-Informed Fault Interpretation
The work I submitted18 tasks
10 tasks · 6.1k characters · Python · 8 written answers · 445 words
- Initial Prediction62 characters
- Load Plot Signal CodePython · 1.9k characters
- Load Plot Signal205 characters
- Example Rms WorkedPython · 697 characters
- Time Features143 characters
- Freq FeaturesPython · 1.2k characters
- Train Classifier363 characters
- Evaluation Heldout288 characters
- Threshold Decision334 characters
- Decision Memo1.0k characters
- Initial Prediction9 words
- Load Plot Signal Code163 words
- Load Plot Signal15 words
- Example Rms Worked72 words
- Time Features10 words
- Freq Features121 words
- Train Classifier31 words
- Evaluation Heldout24 words
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