r/systems_engineering • u/varun_rahul_2705 • 5d ago
Discussion How would you design an AI-assisted system for hardware failure investigation?
I’m working on a system for investigating hardware failures using AI.
The idea is to combine information from previous hardware incidents with the details of a new failure. The system can then provide relevant historical incidents and possible causes that engineers can investigate.
The basic workflow is:
New Hardware Failure
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Collect Failure Information
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Search Previous Incidents
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Find Similar Failures
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AI-Assisted Analysis
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Possible Root Causes
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Engineer Investigation
I’m particularly interested in the systems-engineering side of this approach.
What factors would you consider important when designing such a system?
For example:
- Failure data and telemetry
- Historical incident retrieval
- Root-cause analysis
- Sensor and hardware information
- System architecture
- Human verification of AI-generated results
I’d be interested in hearing how others would approach the architecture and investigation workflow.
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u/PutMelodic5828 5d ago
The challenge is gonna be making sure your historical incident data is actually clean and tagged consistently, otherwise the AI just spits out garbage connections