From PREVENTion to REACTion: Enhancing Failure Resolution in Naval Systems

TL;DR

This paper discusses integrating failure prediction and troubleshooting methods, PREVENT and REACT, to improve failure detection and resolution in naval systems, highlighting practical insights for industrial applications.

Contribution

It presents an extension of the PREVENT failure prediction method with a troubleshooting module REACT, demonstrating integration in naval systems.

Findings

Successful integration of anomaly detection with troubleshooting procedures

Enhanced failure resolution capabilities in naval systems

Lessons learned for deploying these methods in industrial contexts

Abstract

Complex and large industrial systems often misbehave, for instance, due to wear, misuse, or faults. To cope with these incidents, it is important to timely detect their occurrences, localize the sources of the problems, and implement the appropriate countermeasures. This paper reports our experience with a state-of-the-art failure prediction method, PREVENT, and its extension with a troubleshooting module, REACT, applied to naval systems developed by Fincantieri. Our results show how to integrate anomaly detection with troubleshooting procedures. We conclude by discussing a lesson learned, which may help deploy and extend these analyses to other industrial products.