Cloud Service for Machining Device Interoperability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Manufacturers face challenges in real-time monitoring and integration of machining devices across different production facilities and brands due to the lack of interoperability between various machining devices with distinct APIs, leading to difficulties in concurrent control and data processing.
Innovation Solution
A cloud-based method that utilizes a cloud service with integrated execution modules and API function commands to connect and monitor machining devices of different brands, enabling real-time monitoring and data processing through a cloud app, registration table verification, and integration of multiple APIs for seamless communication.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If manufacturers use different brands of machining devices with distinct APIs, then they can provide consumers immediate services and reduce transportation or labor costs, but they cannot communicate with each other and face great troubles in integration and control
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a cloud service as an intermediary between machining devices with different APIs. The cloud service receives data from various machining devices through their respective APIs, processes and standardizes the data, then makes it accessible to users and other systems. This mediator approach allows devices from different brands to interoperates without requiring direct compatibility between them.
Solution Approach 2:
The cloud service provides universal access to machining device data from multiple brands through a single interface. Users can connect to and monitor machining devices from different manufacturers through the same cloud platform, eliminating the need for brand-specific integration solutions and enabling multi-functional control across diverse equipment.
2Productivity
If manufacturers have production facilities at different regions, then they can provide consumers immediate services, but they cannot concurrently monitor in real time machining devices at different production facilities
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from local monitoring to cloud-based monitoring, adding a dimensional layer between the machining devices and the user interface. The cloud service acts as a centralized hub that aggregates data from facilities across different regions, enabling real-time monitoring without requiring physical presence at each location.
Solution Approach 2:
The system replaces direct mechanical or physical monitoring connections with a digital cloud-based communication system. Instead of requiring direct access to each production facility, the cloud service uses network communication to transmit and process data, enabling remote real-time monitoring across distributed locations.
3Adaptability or versatility
If manufacturers use various brands of machining devices, then they can serve different customer needs, but integration and control become complex and difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the integration complexity by separating the diverse machining device layer from the unified control layer. Each machining device maintains its own brand-specific API, but the cloud service handles the complexity of data standardization and integration separately, allowing device variety without propagating complexity to the user interface.
Data Source
AI summary
A method of linking to and monitoring machining devices through the cloud service enables a user to use a cloud app on the cloud to link to machining device at a specific client through a cloud service. The cloud service has API function commands for the cloud app to call and use. The client has an integrated execution module to connect to the machining device. The integrated execution module on the client links to the cloud service through a cloud connection module.