Summability Methods for Noisy Industrial Reliability Data and Failure Prediction

                2026-11-05
              

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Avishek Shah

Faculty of Science, Technology, and Engineering, Rajarshi Janak University, Janakpurdham, Nepal

Prem Kumar Nayak

Faculty of Science, Technology, and Engineering, Rajarshi Janak University, Janakpurdham, Nepal

Suresh Kumar Sahani

Faculty of Science, Technology, and Engineering, Rajarshi Janak University, Janakpurdham, Nepal

Abstract

Purpose: Industrial reliability records contain impulsive noise, drift, missing intervals, maintenance resets, regime changes, and right censored lifetimes, which complicate the estimation of degradation trends and the prediction of failures. This study examines how classical summability ideas, especially Cesàro averaging and Abel type regularization, can be integrated with robust preprocessing, survival analysis, and prognostics.
Research Methodology: The study uses a methodological design that specifies a hybrid workflow of data quality screening, time aware normalization, parallel smoothing at multiple scales, reliability or degradation modeling, blocked temporal validation, uncertainty calibration, and cost aware maintenance decisions, supported by mathematical definitions and generated illustrations.
Results: The illustrations show that short windows leave noise, long windows delay warnings, and the cumulative Cesàro mean recovers only about half of a regime shift after 100 cycles, whereas trailing and Abel type means reach about 90% within 18 cycles. In a pump example, smoothing removed two false alarms at the cost of about two days of warning.
Conclusions: Summability should be treated as a transparent, tunable preprocessing and diagnostic layer rather than as a substitute for a physically meaningful failure model.
Limitations: All numerical illustrations are synthetic, and no empirical performance claim is made.
Contributions. The study maps summability operators to reliability data problems and provides a leakage aware workflow, a comparison protocol, and a decision focused validation checklist.

Abel Summability Cesàro Mean Failure Prediction Industrial Reliability Survival Analysis

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Shah, A., Nayak, P. K., & Sahani, S. K. (2026). Summability Methods for Noisy Industrial Reliability Data and Failure Prediction. Jurnal Teknika Dan Informatika, 6(2), 155-175. https://doi.org/10.52909/jti.v6i2.462

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