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Predictive Maintenance for Manufacturing Equipment

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Problem

Scenario

You are building predictive maintenance analytics for manufacturing equipment used in an industrial production line. The goal is to identify likely failures early enough for maintenance teams to act before unplanned downtime occurs.

Question

How would you approach predictive maintenance analytics for manufacturing equipment?

Representative Dataset

Size·2.4M hourly records, 1,150 assets, 86 featuresTarget·Failure within next 7 daysSignals·Sensors, alarms, maintenance, utilization, asset metadataMissingness·Telemetry gaps and sparse maintenance indicatorsClass balance·2.7% positive windows