Abstract: As the equipment states are complicated with uncertainty, predicting remaining useful life with self-updating ability has become a hard task. Simulation provides an effective way to solve the problem. The concept and technology framework of equipment remaining useful life prediction oriented parallel simulation are proposed based on parallel system theory and the concept, characteristics, capacity demands and functional compositions of parallel simulation are introduced. The main modeling technologies of equipment remaining useful life prediction oriented parallel simulation are discussed, which include awareness of equipment degradation state, construction of equipment degradation state space model and evolution of equipment degradation state space model. It provides references for building equipment remaining useful life prediction oriented parallel simulation system.

Key words: parallel simulation, model evolution, remaining useful life, state awareness, state space model, data assimilation, parameter estimation