A Data Driven Machine Learning Model for Fault Detection in Industrial Pipelines

Industry 4.0 has marked a paradigm shift in the way production and manufacturing operates. Process monitoring and fault diagnosis are important for the safety and reliability of industrial processes especially for smart manufacturing. As a data-driven process monitoring methodology, multivariate statistical analysis techniques, such machine learning based approaches have become extremely critical for automation. Pipelines carrying oil and gas are essential for a nation’s economic sustainability. In order to maximise their function and prevent product losses during the transportation of petroleum products, they must be carefully inspected. However, they are susceptible to failure, which could have negative effects on the environment, financial loss, and safety. Therefore, evaluating the pipe’s state and quality would be crucial. Despite being time-consuming and expensive, a number of inspection procedures are used to assure the safety of pipelines. However, due to the time consumption and error prone nature of manual inspection, data driven models are being explored for forecasting failure in oil and gas pipelines. The proposed work presents a Bayesian Regularized classifier for forecasting failure and the results show that the proposed approach outperforms the existing baseline techniques in terms of forecasting accuracy.