FASTory assembly line power consumption data

Data Brief. 2023 Apr 19:48:109160. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2023.109160. eCollection 2023 Jun.

Abstract

Machine learning (ML) techniques are widely adopted in manufacturing systems for discovering valuable patterns in shopfloor data. In this regard, machine learning models learn patterns in data to optimize process parameters, forecast equipment deterioration, and plan maintenance strategies among other uses. Thus, this article presents the dataset collected from an assembly line known as the FASTory assembly line. This data contains more than 4,000 data samples of conveyor belt motor driver's power consumption. The FASTory assembly line is equipped with web-based industrial controllers and smart 3-phase energy monitoring modules as an expansion to these controllers. For data collection, an application was developed in a timely manner. The application receives a new data sample as JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) every second. Afterwards, the application extracts the energy data for the relevant phase and persists it in a MySQL database for the purpose of processing at a later stage. This data is collected for two separate cases: static case and dynamic case. In the static case, the power consumption data is collected under different loads and belt tension values. This data is used by a prognostic model (Artificial Neural Network (ANN)) to learn the conveyor belt motor driver's power consumption pattern under different belt tension values and load conditions. The data collected during the dynamic case is used to investigate how the belt tension affects the movement of the pallet between conveyor zones. The knowledge obtained from the power consumption data of the conveyor belt motor driver is used to forecast the gradual behavioural deterioration of the conveyor belts used for the transportation of pallets between processing workstations of discrete manufacturing systems.

Keywords: Belt tension; Conveyor belt deterioration; Discrete manufacturing systems; Power consumption; Power consumption-based prognostics model; Predictive maintenance.