Converting data into knowledge with RCA methodology improved for inverters fault analysis

In the last years, the knowledge management methodology increased the perspective and deeply analysis in the energy evaluation, with great emphasis in the training of the maintenance teams and early detection of failure modes; these inefficiencies detection is associated to patterns recognition with expert systems. Several energy brands, utilities, universities, and design companies investigated about this problem with limits in the integration between maintenance team knowledge and the degradation of the energy equipment. Therefore, our findings are a new approach of the root cause analysis (RCA) improved with the knowledge management perspective, associated to the failure mode analysis for 164 inverters in photo-voltaic solar plant by using twenty-one failures modes; by incorporate the graph theory called Erdös–Rényi graphs with a quantitative methodology and qualitative evaluation with the knowledge management method in the root cause analysis; the dataset evaluated has 120,561 signals associated to 3,014,025 patterns, during the period from 2018 to 2021 in a PV solar plant. In this new root cause analysis method, the knowledge management is analyzed as a complement for the solution for sudden failure modes and early degradation.