Accurately predicting the lifespan of critical device components is essential for maintenance planning and production optimization.
In this work, survival analysis is used to predict the lifespan of production printheads developed by Canon Production Printing.
Five techniques, including the Kaplan-Meier estimator, Cox proportional hazard model, Weibull accelerated failure time model, random survival forest, and gradient boosting, are applied to estimate survival probabilities and failure rates.
Quantitative evaluation demonstrates that survival analysis outperforms industry-standard baseline methods for printhead lifespan prediction.