Don't be misled by what you see: Reliability estimation and maintenance optimization from observational data using causal inference

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 In reliability engineering, often we need to rely on observational data - the data directly collected from the operational filed - to establish reliability models and make decisions related to maintenance, As compared to data collected from controlled tests like lifetime or accelerated lifetime testing, observational data are prone to various types of bias, e.g., selection bias, confounding bias. In this talk, we first show through a few examples why traditional statistical estimation methods might lead to misleading decisions when applied to observational data, and analyze why the traditional approaches. Then, we develop a new causal inference based method for reliability modeling from observational data. An Accelerated Lifetime Model with covariates are used as the reliability model, and a parameter estimation method based on propensity score matching is developed to accurately estimate the model parameters under severe selection bias. Finally, we develop a joint maintenance optimization model that integrates age replacement with periodical service that recover the degradation levels, The developed model is applied in a case study of engineering maintenance planning of critical components in electrical transmission networks from our industrial partner RTE.



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  • No. 37 Xueyuan Road, Beihang University
  • Haidian District
  • Beijing, Beijing
  • China
  • Building: Weimin Building | 为民楼
  • Room Number: 320

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  • Co-sponsored by School of Reliability and Systems Engineering. Beihang University | 北航可靠性与系统工程学院


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Zhiguo ZENG

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Professor Zhiguo ZENG received the Ph.D.degree in reliability engineering from Beihang university in 2016. After receiving his PhD, he joined CentraleSupélec, Université Paris-Saclay, and became a full professor in 2023. His research focuses on the characterization and modeling of the failure/repair/maintenance behavior of components, complex systems and their reliability, maintainability, prognostics, safety vulnerability and security. Dr, ZENG is an author/co-author more than 100 paper's in highly recognized international journals and conferences.

He is recognized as Top Scholar by ScholarGPS based on the his strong publication records and impact of his research, His research has been funded by important government funding agencies like ANR and ERC, and also important industrial companies like EDF, SNCE, Orange and GE Healthcare. He is editorial board member of International Journal of Data Analysis Techniques and Strategies, and the leading guest editor of the special issue on “Dependent failure modeling” of the journal Applied Science. He is the co-head of the master program “Risk, Resilience andEngineering Management" in Universite Paris Saclay, and the engineering degree program"Operation Research and Risk Analytics”.