Abstract:With the increasing complexity of equipments, the equipment maintenance and fault diagnosis are also put forward higher requirements. As a new fault diagnosis technology, fault knowledge graph has a lot of advantages, such as structured storage, visual display, multi-source data fusion, real-time update and so on. In order to deeply understand the research idea of fault knowledge graph and grasp its future research direction, the research status of each main technical of fault knowledge graph is analyzed and summarized. Starting from the definition and development history of knowledge graph, the definition and the research status of knowledge graph are extended. And the key technology of each layer of fault knowledge graph is introduced, the research methods of each technology and related research status are analyzed. Based on current research status and future technology development trend, the future research direction of fault knowledge graph is prospected, which provides reference and enlightenment for the further research of fault knowledge graph.