Before you begin to customize a C3 AI Reliability application, familiarize yourself with these terms used in the context the C3 AI Reliability data model:
  • Alert: Indicator that a asset risk score has exceeded the configured threshold, and notifies the user that a high-risk issue has been identified.
  • Asset: Manufacturers use the term asset to refer to a revenue-generating system of systems (for example, offshore oil platform, gas reservoir).
  • Cluster: Machine learning term. In Predictive Maintenance, a cluster is a correlated group of sensors that are associated with a single asset (but may not be physically connected).
  • Failure Mode Identification: Maps asset event predictions to known failure modes observed in historical data or available in database of asset classification blueprints.
  • Operations Management: Directly integrates with work management system to schedule work orders.
  • P&ID: Piping & instrumentation diagram – detailed diagram of the process equipment and piping together with instrumentation and control devices.
  • PFD: Process flow diagram – high level diagram of equipment relationships for material flows in a process.
  • Plant: A facility where an industrial manufacturing process takes place.
  • Risk Score: quantitative measure of asset performance using semi-supervised anomaly detection. Risk score is computed based on correlation of relevant tags/sensors to a given asset, and the deviation from observed behavior from the expected behavior for that group of tags.
  • ReliabilityAsset: A generalized asset that can be broken down into a general asset hierachy, usually consisting of an overarching System that has multiple Subsystems which have multiple pieces of Equipment.
  • Equipment: A ReliabilityAsset that is a single piece of equipment (for example, valve). Not an actual type, just a formulaic use case of ReliabilityAsset.
  • Subsystem: A ReliabilityAsset which is a collection of equipment or a collection of smaller subsystems performing a chemical reaction or physical operation that occurs on the material in the process. Not an actual type, just a formulaic use case of ReliabilityAsset.
  • System: A ReliabilityAsset which is a collection of subsystems performing a chemical reaction or physical operation that occurs on the material in the manufacturing process. Not an actual type, just a formulaic use case of ReliabilityAsset.
  • Sensor/Tag: An individual data series associated with a measured quantity on an asset (for example, pressure, temperature, flow rate). Is a leaf in the asset hierarchy and are used as features in Machine Learning models.
  • Workflow Management: Multi-phase workflow process to review and disposition alerts.
  • Criticality: A generic and consistent attribute assigned to Assets and Alerts, used for comparing and triaging especially when dealing with different non-comparable model outputs.
  • Criticality Score: A numeric value between 0 and 1 (inclusive) to represent criticality.
  • Criticality Level: A descriptive string to represent criticality in the UI.