Drive Configuration Database for Traceable Lifecycle Changes
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for designing, configuring, and maintaining drive devices lack a centralized system for managing data across different application programs, leading to inefficiencies in data management, synchronization, and the inability to trace configuration changes, which can result in misconfigurations and increased downtime.
Innovation Solution
A central database is implemented to store and manage data related to the design, configuration, and maintenance of drive devices, including time-stamped data entries, allowing access and updates by application programs, and providing configuration rules and simulations to ensure data integrity and prevent misconfigurations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If data is stored in distributed locations across different application programs, then each program can access its own data independently, but data synchronization becomes error-prone and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The patent consolidates data storage into a centralized database that is accessible by all application programs. This merging of distributed data storage into a single centralized location eliminates the need for complex synchronization mechanisms between multiple programs, thereby resolving the contradiction between independent access and synchronization time.
Solution Approach 2:
The centralized database acts as an intermediary between different application programs, providing a single source of truth that all programs can access. This intermediary structure allows programs to independently access and update data without direct inter-program communication, eliminating synchronization overhead while maintaining data consistency.
2Adaptability or versatility
If configuration changes are made repeatedly during maintenance and commissioning, then the drive device can be adapted to changed requirements, but tracing and verifying configuration integrity becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically saves configuration data at predefined checkpoints during commissioning and maintenance phases. This preliminary action of storing configuration states before changes occur enables later tracing and verification of configuration integrity, allowing the system to maintain adaptability while ensuring reliability through automated configuration management.
Solution Approach 2:
The centralized database provides feedback mechanisms that track and record all configuration changes. By continuously monitoring and logging configuration modifications, the system maintains visibility into configuration integrity while allowing repeated adaptive changes, thus resolving the contradiction between adaptability and reliability.
3Loss of information
If data is collected from multiple sources for commissioning and maintenance, then comprehensive information is available, but obtaining and processing data from different sources increases downtime
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple data sources into a single centralized database that all application programs access. This consolidation eliminates the need to collect and process data from multiple separate sources, as all required information is already available in one location, thereby maintaining information completeness while reducing data collection time and downtime.
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AI summary
A method for designing, configuring and maintaining a drive device with a central database provided for application programs used for designing, configuring and maintaining the drive device. Data are stored in the central database as temporal data and can be read and supplemented by the application programs. Configuration rules, dependent on the life cycle phase of the drive device, for an execution and/or an extent of a configuration change to the configuration of the drive device are defined.