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Challenge

Build a Sparkplug B Operator Knowledge Capture and Anomaly Explainer

Capture operator voice-to-text notes and associate them with Sparkplug B edge telemetry anomalies. Generate contextual operating guides and shift resolution playbooks for recurring production disturbances.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

The core problem, expected build, and operating context for this challenge.

Capture operator voice-to-text notes and associate them with Sparkplug B edge telemetry anomalies. Generate contextual operating guides and shift resolution playbooks for recurring production disturbances.

Production Shift Team Leader

Listen for unacknowledged alarm sequences and process excursions published via Sparkplug B edge payloads.

Prompt the active machine operator for contextual resolution observations via mobile terminal voice-to-text.

Link operator natural language explanations with underlying metric timestamps, tags, and alarm aliases.

Assemble indexed shift knowledge base entries to accelerate troubleshooting of matching future events.

Voice-enabled tablet operator interface featuring incident summaries and one-click knowledge approval.

Construct paired datasets of Sparkplug B edge metric bursts and simulated operator incident resolution transcripts. Starter examples below are synthetic. They are not downloaded records.

Eclipse Sparkplug Relies on Sparkplug B metric aliases and historical data structures defined in the Eclipse specification.

semantic-kernel, pydantic, pytest. Semantic Kernel integrates multi-modal voice plugins with enterprise operational memory indexing. Requires hosted or local reasoning model supporting structured JSON function calling.

Submit runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, a working interface, example outputs, and a recorded end-to-end demo. Include tests and an action log.

Associates operator narrative explanations to matching telemetry incident timestamps.

Extracts verified root-cause tags from unstructured operator notes.

Stores structured operational playbooks retrievable by alarm alias code.

Rejects entries where operator resolution description lacks actionable steps.

```json [ { "input": { "incident_id": "INC-883", "alarm_metric": "HydraulicPressure_Low", "alias": 44, "metric_value": 42.1, "threshold": 60, "operator_note": "Found bypass valve loose after product changeover. Hand tightened valve handle and pressure returned to 65 PSI." }, "expected_output": { "incident_id": "INC-883", "metric_alias": 44, "cause_category": "VALVE_MECHANICAL_MISALIGNMENT", "action_taken": "Hand tightened bypass valve handle", "playbook_entry_created": true, "playbook_title": "Hydraulic Pressure Low - Check Bypass Valve Position" } }, { "input": { "incident_id": "INC-884", "alarm_metric": "MotorTemp_High", "alias": 52, "metric_value": 98.4, "threshold": 85, "operator_note": "It was hot." }, "expected_output": { "incident_id": "INC-884", "metric_alias": 52, "cause_category": "UNSPECIFIED", "action_taken": "NONE_RECORDED", "playbook_entry_created": false, "playbook_title": null } } ] ```

Maintains informational operator logbooks; never executes direct parameter changes on active machinery. Use mock external writes. Require human review before any real deployment.

Rules

Participation guide

Maintains informational operator logbooks; never executes direct parameter changes on active machinery. Use mock external writes and human review.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Associates operator narrative explanations to matching telemetry incident timestamps. Extracts verified root-cause tags from unstructured operator notes. Stores structured operational playbooks retrievable by alarm alias code. Rejects entries where operator resolution description lacks actionable steps.

Submission format

Runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, working interface, example outputs, recorded demo, tests, and action logs.

Datasets

Challenge datasets

Public datasets, plus the private datasets you have access to.

Evaluation rubric

How submissions are scored

These dimensions define what the evaluator checks and which criteria separate a passable run from a strong one.

Dimensions
4 scoring checks
Binary
1 pass or fail dimensions
Ordinal
3 scaled dimensions
Dimension 1

Complete workflow

Listen for unacknowledged alarm sequences and process excursions published via Sparkplug B edge payloads. Prompt the active machine operator for contextual resolution observations via mobile terminal voice-to-text. Link operator natural language explanations with underlying metric timestamps, tags, and alarm aliases. Assemble indexed shift knowledge base entries to accelerate troubleshooting of matching future events.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 2

Correctness and evidence

Associates operator narrative explanations to matching telemetry incident timestamps. Extracts verified root-cause tags from unstructured operator notes. Stores structured operational playbooks retrievable by alarm alias code. Rejects entries where operator resolution description lacks actionable steps.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 3

Review interface

Voice-enabled tablet operator interface featuring incident summaries and one-click knowledge approval.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 4

Safe execution

Maintains informational operator logbooks; never executes direct parameter changes on active machinery.

Binary check

This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.

Learning goals

What you should walk away with

  • Listen for unacknowledged alarm sequences and process excursions published via Sparkplug B edge payloads.

  • Prompt the active machine operator for contextual resolution observations via mobile terminal voice-to-text.

  • Link operator natural language explanations with underlying metric timestamps, tags, and alarm aliases.

  • Assemble indexed shift knowledge base entries to accelerate troubleshooting of matching future events.

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Construct paired datasets of Sparkplug B edge metric bursts and simulated operator incident resolution transcripts. Supplied starter examples are synthetic, not source extracts.

Challenge setup

Configuration summary for this challenge.

Challenge input

Input details are not configured.

Semantic Kernel

Agent Systems · Agent Frameworks

Evaluated output

No output checks are configured.

Evaluation checks
  • Listen for unacknowledged alarm sequences and process excursions published via Sparkplug B edge payloads. P...
  • Associates operator narrative explanations to matching telemetry incident timestamps. Extracts verified roo...
  • Voice-enabled tablet operator interface featuring incident summaries and one-click knowledge approval.
Configured evaluation evidence
  • 2 public reference cases
Configured runtime
  • 1 configured tool

Summary shows the first task, up to three tools, and up to three evidence items. Open the technical recipe to view all configured items.

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Configured tools

Action Space
  • Semantic Kernel · Optional

Evaluation contract

  • Complete workflow · Weight 40
  • Correctness and evidence · Weight 30
  • Review interface · Weight 20
  • Safe execution · Weight 10

Reference cases

  • 2 public reference cases

Workflow tasks

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Recipe freeze marker

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