EETimes - How Do You Protect Your Machine Learning Investment? -

Manufacturers and suppliers commonly offer maintenance contracts to companies who purchase operation-critical equipment. A preventative maintenance application based on a machine learning (ML) model can be used to help avoid failures that could impact business. To build the model, the manufacturer or supplier must spend time, money, and effort. However, to eliminate the costs of a maintenance contract, the customer could duplicate the model and manage the maintenance without the supplier's assistance. To build a machine learning (ML) model for maintenance, an appropriate training set must be collected and labeled; the architecture and training parameters must be chosen for optimal accuracy–speed trade-offs for the algorithm; and computing time is required to train it.