Stuttgart Open Relay Degradation Dataset (SOReDD)
This dataset addresses the problem of predicting relay failures to avoid machine downtime in industrial automation, though it is incremental as it focuses on data provision rather than algorithmic innovation.
The paper tackles the lack of open-source datasets for industrial transfer learning by introducing the Stuttgart Open Relay Degradation Dataset (SOReDD), which provides data on electromechanical relay degradation under various operating conditions to enable transfer learning scenarios.
Real-life industrial use cases for machine learning oftentimes involve heterogeneous and dynamic assets, processes and data, resulting in a need to continuously adapt the learning algorithm accordingly. Industrial transfer learning offers to lower the effort of such adaptation by allowing the utilization of previously acquired knowledge in solving new (variants of) tasks. Being data-driven methods, the development of industrial transfer learning algorithms naturally requires appropriate datasets for training. However, open-source datasets suitable for transfer learning training, i.e. spanning different assets, processes and data (variants), are rare. With the Stuttgart Open Relay Degradation Dataset (SOReDD) we want to offer such a dataset. It provides data on the degradation of different electromechanical relays under different operating conditions, allowing for a large number of different transfer scenarios. Although such relays themselves are usually inexpensive standard components, their failure often leads to the failure of a machine as a whole due to their role as the central power switching element of a machine. The main cost factor in the event of a relay defect is therefore not the relay itself, but the reduced machine availability. It is therefore desirable to predict relay degradation as accurately as possible for specific applications in order to be able to replace relays in good time and avoid unplanned machine downtimes. Nevertheless, data-driven failure prediction for electromechanical relays faces the challenge that relay degradation behavior is highly dependent on the operating conditions, high-resolution measurement data on relay degradation behavior is only collected in rare cases, and such data can then only cover a fraction of the possible operating environments. Relays are thus representative of many other central standard components in automation technology.