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 an end-to-end rolling-bearing fault detector from vibration data: visualized the signal, engineered RMS/kurtosis/crest-factor and envelope-spectrum features at the supplied defect frequencies, localized the fault to the outer race via BPFO, and trained a depth-capped decision tree on training bearings only. Evaluated on a held-out set with catch-rate and false-alarm rate, then justified a 0.50 alarm threshold using explicit miss-vs-inspection costs in a maintenance memo.
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
- Correctly found BPFO as the dominant envelope-spectrum band and mapped it to the outer race.
- Reported a compact tree with stated depth 1 and 3 nodes, aligned with the embedded-budget constraint.
- Used held-out metrics with both catch-rate and false-alarm rate, then tied the threshold to explicit miss and false-alarm costs.
- Wrote a maintenance memo that names the fault location and explains the tradeoff in plain language using the student's own results.
- Leakage-Free Feature Engineering
- Honest Held-Out Evaluation
The work I submitted20 tasks
12 tasks · 7.1k characters · Python · 8 written answers · 470 words
- Initial Prediction62 characters
- Example Load Plot HealthyPython · 952 characters
- Load Plot Signal CodePython · 1.8k characters
- Load Plot Signal205 characters
- Example Rms WorkedPython · 697 characters
- Time Features143 characters
- Freq FeaturesPython · 1.0k characters
- Fault Location239 characters
- Train Classifier363 characters
- Evaluation Heldout288 characters
- Threshold Decision334 characters
- Decision Memo1.1k characters
- Initial Prediction9 words
- Example Load Plot Healthy90 words
- Load Plot Signal Code163 words
- Load Plot Signal15 words
- Example Rms Worked72 words
- Time Features10 words
- Freq Features97 words
- Fault Location14 words
Summarised on purpose — the submitted code and writing stay private so this page cannot be reused as an answer key. The full submission sits behind the verified certificate.