Digital Asset Avatar for Adaptive Maintenance Parameters
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional asset management systems rely on generic maintenance schedules and disconnected databases, lacking automatic models tailored to specific assets, which hinders efficient data processing and synchronization.
Innovation Solution
An asset management system that includes a digital avatar with a customized automatic model, linked to field and maintenance management systems, which processes new input data to provide tailored operating parameters, updating asset information across company systems.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If standard generic maintenance schedules are used with large safety factors, then reliability is improved, but device complexity increases and productivity decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically changes maintenance parameters by transitioning from fixed generic schedules to adaptive parameters based on real-time asset health data. The digital avatar continuously updates operating parameters, maintenance intervals, and safety factors based on actual asset condition, replacing static generic maintenance schedules with dynamic condition-based parameters.
Solution Approach 2:
The maintenance system transitions from static generic schedules to dynamic condition-based maintenance. The digital avatar continuously receives new data from field and maintenance management systems, automatically updates asset models, and adjusts maintenance parameters in real-time based on actual asset health status, making the system adaptive rather than fixed.
2Ease of operation
If disconnected databases are used for asset management, then ease of operation is improved, but loss of information increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges previously disconnected databases and management systems into an integrated ecosystem. The digital avatar acts as a central hub that receives data from field asset management systems, maintenance management systems, and manufacturer systems, synchronizing information across all these previously separate data sources to eliminate information loss.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements continuous feedback loops where the digital avatar automatically receives new data from connected systems, processes it through the asset model, and updates maintenance parameters. This feedback mechanism ensures all systems remain synchronized with current asset status, preventing information loss while maintaining operational simplicity.
3Device complexity
If manual data processing is used for asset health data, then device complexity is reduced, but loss of time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The digital avatar performs self-service by automatically receiving data from connected systems, processing it through the integrated asset model, and generating updated maintenance parameters without human intervention. The system autonomously updates asset health status, calculates new operating parameters, and pushes notifications to relevant systems, eliminating manual data processing while maintaining simple system architecture.
4Ease of manufacture
If generic maintenance schedules are used, then ease of manufacture is improved, but adaptability decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The digital avatar platform provides universality by serving multiple functions across different asset types and management systems. A single digital avatar infrastructure handles data integration, asset modeling, parameter calculation, and system communication for diverse assets, eliminating the need for separate customized systems while maintaining asset-specific adaptability through individual avatar configurations.
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AI summary
An asset management system that includes a field asset management system; a maintenance management system; and a digital avatar associated with a specific asset. The digital avatar has an automatic Model that is customized for the associated asset. The digital avatar automatically receives information from at least one of the field asset management system or maintenance management system as information associated with the asset is entered into the at least one of the field asset management system or maintenance management system. The automatic Model automatically runs with the new information and provides a new operating parameter for use by at least the field asset management system.