How Long Has This Engine Got Left?
How many more cycles can this jet engine run before it needs attention? An estimate of remaining life lets an operator plan maintenance around the engine instead of the calendar.
The table
Simulated turbofan engines run to failure, with 21 sensor readings at every cycle and the number of cycles each engine had left. It's in Welt's research catalogue as NASA PHM2008 Dataset 1, 45,918 rows by 22 columns, licensed BSD. The catalogue measures its signal at 0.61. At 45,918 rows and 21 features the table is larger than the model limits allow, so the walkthrough evaluates and fits on a seeded sample of 4,000 rows. TabICLv2 and Kumo Tabular Medium compete.
Walkthrough
Load it from the catalogue
Find the table, read its recorded target and print the column names.
import pandas as pd from welt import Client with Client() as client: item = client.research_datasets(q="NASA PHM2008", limit=1)["items"][0] info = client.research_dataset(item["id"]) data = client.load_research_dataset(item["id"]) target = info["targets"][0] target = target["name"] if isinstance(target, dict) else target print([column["name"] for column in info["schema"]], target)Pick the rows
Set aside 20 rows to predict at the end. The models learn from a seeded sample of 4,000 of the rest, the most this table's width allows.
known = data.dropna(subset=[target]) new_rows = known.sample(20, random_state=1) table = known.drop(new_rows.index).sample(4000, random_state=7)Compare the models and predict
The models compete on the same folds against a simple guess, then the top-ranked one is fitted on the whole table. RMSE and MAE are average errors in the target's own units, so lower is better. The last table puts each prediction next to the real answer.
with Client() as client: evaluation = client.evaluate(table, target, task="regression", seed=7, models=["tabicl-v2", "kumo-medium"]) model = evaluation.fit() print(evaluation.summary()[["name", "rank", "rmse_mean", "mae_mean"]]) features = new_rows.drop(columns=target) print(pd.DataFrame({"actual": new_rows[target].values, "predicted": model.predict(features)}))
What you get
Try it
Use Open with to run the research datasets notebook in Colab, Kaggle or Jupyter and search for "NASA PHM2008", or run the code above after pip install "welt-client[parquet]".
Open with
- Type
- Use case
- Area
- Engineering
- Question
- How Long Has This Engine Got Left?
- Model
- TabICLv2, Kumo Tabular Medium
- Data
- NASA PHM2008 Dataset 1, 45,918 rows
- For
- Reliability and aerospace engineers
- Licence
- BSD