A Semi-Supervised Failure Knowledge Graph Construction Method for Decision Support in Operations and Maintenance

Maintenance logs of industrial equipment record descriptive and unstructured operation and maintenance (O&M) information, which is the basis of reliability, availability, and maintainability investigations. However, the construction of failure knowledge graphs as a basis for understanding the failure and maintenance properties of systems is challenging due to the requirement of annotation efforts and domain knowledge. This article proposes a novel semi-supervised method for failure knowledge graph construction. Initially, a semantic module is proposed to extract hidden contextual information from maintenance records and identify corresponding failure modes. The semantic module is trained by unlabeled maintenance records with the assistance of the hard pseudo-label acquisition and the proposed self-training algorithm. Subsequently, a taxonomy induction module is presented to extract failure items and their relationships to construct failure knowledge graphs that provide decision support. The feasibility and superiority of the proposed method are validated by maintenance logs from real wind farms. Overall, the proposed method provides an effective tool for semantic information digitalization of well-cumulated industrial O&M data.