Industrial Motors Anomaly Detection using IIoT-Based Semi-Supervised Learning

Abstract

Motors are crucial elements in the industry, where unexpected failures can interrupt production cycles, reduce profits, and raise safety concerns; and therefore an early anomaly detection in motor behavior is highly appreciated. As an extension of the known internet of things (IoT), industrial IoT or IIoT allows connection of motors and their drive units through distributed sensing platforms capable of acquiring operational data related to power, temperature, vibration, and rotational speed. Once these data are transferred through the available IIoT infrastructure and stored appropriately for later off-line processing, the limited availability of labeled fault data remains a major obstacle in practical industrial applications. As a remedy, this study proposes a semi-supervised anomaly detection framework that relies exclusively on non-intrusive three-phase electrical telemetry. Focusing on a commercial offset printing press, high-frequency power measurements were collected from failure-sensitive dryer motors. Time-domain statistical features, including mean, clearance factor, and shape factor extracted from active power, power factor, and current signals, were employed to train an unsupervised One-Class Support Vector Machine (OC-SVM). Experimental results obtained from 84 hours of real industrial telemetry demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed approach in modeling normal operating behavior, achieving a Recall of 93.79%, a False Positive Rate of 5.12%, and an F1-Score of 94.59%. The developed framework enables early anomaly detection, lowers maintenance expenses, reduces operational downtime, and enhances overall system reliability, supporting the advancement of smart Industry 4.0 environments.