Technologies for producing training data for identifying degradation of physical components

A method comprising:

• applying, by a system for producing training data, an accelerated degradation process to a physical component of an industrial plant;
• and
• obtaining, by the system, measurement data indicative of visual characteristics of the physical component at each of multiple phases of degradation, wherein the measurement data is usable to train a neural network to identify a phase of degradation of another physical component.

One or more machine-readable storage media comprising a plurality of instructions stored thereon that, in response to being executed, cause a system to:

• apply an accelerated degradation process to a physical component of an industrial plant;
• and
• obtain measurement data indicative of visual characteristics of the physical component at each of multiple phases of degradation, wherein the measurement data is usable to train a neural network to identify a phase of degradation of another physical component.