Intelligent Component Maintenance Information Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
The current time-based maintenance approach for industrial machinery and installations is inefficient, requiring manual creation and frequent updates of maintenance plans, leading to high costs and labor-intensive processes, especially for custom machinery builders and installation designers.
Innovation Solution
A system and method where maintenance information is integrated into intelligent components, allowing for the automatic generation of performance-based maintenance plans, including maintenance intervals, actions, personnel, and tool requirements, which can be easily adapted and optimized using a maintenance tool that combines component-specific data.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If maintenance plans are created manually by installation designers using component documentation, then maintenance information can be gathered and combined, but the process becomes labor-intensive and costly
Solution Approach 1:
Components are equipped with embedded memory devices that automatically store and provide their own maintenance information, eliminating the need for manual data collection from documentation. The components self-service by providing maintenance data directly to the maintenance plan generation device.
Solution Approach 2:
The manual mechanical process of gathering and compiling maintenance information from physical or digital documentation is replaced by an automated electronic system where components communicate their maintenance data through memory devices and interfaces to a generation device.
2Adaptability or versatility
If maintenance plans are created manually for each new installation, then customization to specific components is achieved, but costs and time consumption increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
Maintenance information is pre-stored in the memory devices of components during manufacturing, before the installation is even assembled. This preliminary action eliminates the need for time-consuming data collection during the maintenance plan creation phase.
Solution Approach 2:
The maintenance information storage and provision capability is made universal across all components, regardless of type or manufacturer. Each component can provide its maintenance data through standardized memory devices, allowing the same maintenance plan generation device to handle diverse installations.
3Loss of information
If maintenance information is stored in component documentation, then information can be accessed, but the process becomes complex and requires manual analysis and combination
Solution Approach 1:
Maintenance information is extracted from complex documentation and stored directly in simplified memory devices within components. This extraction eliminates the need for manual analysis and combination of documentation, as the raw maintenance data is already prepared and stored electronically.
Solution Approach 2:
Memory devices act as intermediaries between components and the maintenance plan generation device. Instead of directly analyzing component documentation, the generation device interfaces with the memory devices that contain structured maintenance information, simplifying the data access process.
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AI summary
The invention relates to a system and a method for creating maintenance plans for machines and/or installations simply, dynamically and at low cost, in particular an automation system from production automation and/or process automation. The said machines and/or installations comprise one or more components, wherein the components contain maintenance information, and wherein the system has a device for generating a maintenance plan by combining the maintenance information of the components.