Cross-Model Device Mapping for Factory Relation Visualization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing device management techniques fail to recognize the same device across multiple data models, leading to confusion in understanding device relations in a factory setting.
Innovation Solution
A data processing apparatus and method that generates and displays device-relation data in different formats, specifically identifying and emphasizing the same device across physical arrangement, electrical connection, and network connection data using a data processing apparatus with units for data-model generation, conversion, designation, and display, allowing for clear recognition of devices across various data models.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If device-relation data is displayed in multiple definition forms, then the comprehensiveness of device information is improved, but the recognizability of the same device across different data forms deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies color changes by displaying the same device ID with different background colors or text colors across multiple definition forms of device-relation data. This visual differentiation allows users to immediately recognize that the same device appears in different data representations, solving the problem of device recognizability while maintaining comprehensive information display.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces device IDs as intermediary elements that serve as unique identifiers across different definition forms. By consistently displaying device IDs in each definition form, the system creates a linking mechanism that helps users trace and recognize the same device across physical arrangement data, electrical connection data, and other multiple representations.
2Manufacturing precision
If multiple pieces of device-relation data are displayed, then the detail level of device management is improved, but the complexity of data interpretation increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments device information into multiple definition forms (physical arrangement definition, electrical connection definition, etc.), with each form presenting specific aspects of device relations. This segmentation allows detailed device management information to be organized into manageable, specialized views, reducing the cognitive load of interpreting all details simultaneously while maintaining comprehensive coverage.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds the dimension of device IDs as a cross-cutting identifier that spans across multiple definition forms. This dimensional addition allows users to navigate and correlate information across different data representations by following the device ID thread, thereby reducing interpretation complexity while preserving detailed management information.
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AI summary
A displaying unit (106) displays a plurality of pieces of device-relation data in each of which a plurality of devices are written and a relation between the plurality of devices is defined in a different definition form from each other. A device designation unit (103) designates as a subject device, a device among the plurality of devices. A device-relation-data generation unit (104) extracts writing of the subject device for each piece of device-relation data. The displaying unit (106) associates the pieces of writing of the subject device with each other over the plurality of pieces of device-relation data.