US 10,589,764 B2 · Determining root cause of locomotive failure

Abstract

The example embodiments are directed to a device and method for determining a root cause of equipment failure. In one example, the method includes storing a plurality of root causes of previous equipment failures, receiving textual data associated with a current equipment failure, determining a root cause for the current equipment failure by determining a similarity of keywords of each root cause with respect to the received textual data of the current equipment failure and selecting at least one root cause based on the determined similarities of the plurality of root causes, and displaying the at least one determined root cause for the current equipment failure via a display device. The example embodiments provide a system and method that automatically determine a root cause of equipment failure rather than rely on a subject matter expert.

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Dependent claims

A computing system comprising:

a storage configured to store information about a plurality of root causes of previous equipment failures including respective keywords associated with each root cause;
a network interface configured to receive textual data associated with a current equipment failure;
a processor configured to determine a root cause for the current equipment failure by determining a similarity of the keywords of each root cause with respect to the received textual data of the current equipment failure, and select at least one root cause based on the determined similarities of the plurality of root causes;
and
an output configured to provide information about the at least one selected root cause for the current equipment failure for display via a display device.

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