Patent ID: 11961052
Assignee: CATERPILLAR INC.
Field: Civil engineering (Other fields)
Classification: CPC E  G | IPC G

Claim 12:
13. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
training a wear estimate model, including:
predicting a plurality of wear patterns for a part, each wear pattern corresponding to a degree of severity;
rendering automatically generating, by executing a parametric modeling operation, a plurality of training images, each training image in the plurality of training images representing a combination of a corresponding one of the plurality of predicted wear patterns, the degree of severity, and at least one of a load type and a cycle time; and
labeling each of the plurality of training images with the corresponding degree of severity and the at least one of the load type and the cycle time;
training a neural network with the plurality of labeled training images;

receiving a part image of a deployed part associated with a machine;
feeding the part image into the trained wear estimate model;
receiving a wear estimate for the part image from the trained wear estimate model;
estimating a change in performance of the machine based on the wear estimate;
determining a machine utilization pattern for the machine; and
combining the machine utilization pattern and the change in performance estimate to determine an optimal time to replace the part.