Dynamic State Interface Engine for Production Line Adaptation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current production line modeling software lacks adaptability to meet specific user needs, particularly in optimizing collective input from various personnel and does not account for dynamic updates in production line device management, limiting its effectiveness in real-time decision-making and device parameter adjustments.

Innovation Solution

A computer-implemented system that serves a dynamically synchronized process model instance, allowing users to update production line-related data, which is then reflected in the operating parameters of devices, enabling continuous adaptation and collective decision-making across different devices and enterprises.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If current model-driven software platforms are used to provide production line data, then basic data display and issue reporting capabilities are provided, but the system lacks adaptability to meet specific user needs and cannot optimize collective input from various personnel

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadaptability to user needsVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adapts the process model instance based on user roles, device types, and real-time production line state. The interface rendering engine generates customized views by dynamically filtering and organizing data elements according to user-specific needs, allowing the same underlying data model to serve multiple user scenarios without requiring separate systems for each user type.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The patent creates a universal platform that serves multiple user types (operators, supervisors, managers) and multiple device types (desktop, mobile, tablet) through a single adaptable interface. The system provides multi-functionality by enabling different user roles to interact with the same production line data in role-appropriate ways, consolidating what would traditionally require multiple specialized tools into one unified system.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Productivity

If production line data is displayed to facilitate communications among personnel, then basic communication capability is provided, but the system does not account for various considerations that would optimize the collective input of various personnel

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecollective input optimizationVSAvoiduser interaction ease
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies local quality by tailoring the presentation and accessibility of data elements to specific user roles and device contexts. Each user receives a customized view of the process model instance with data elements prioritized and organized according to their specific needs and responsibilities, rather than presenting a uniform interface to all users.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback mechanisms that allow users to interact with and modify the process model instance, with changes propagated back to the central system. This enables collective input optimization by capturing insights from operators, supervisors, and managers, and using that feedback to continuously improve production line operations and update the process model accordingly.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Adaptability or versatility

If software tools provide limited adaptation of data according to enterprise boundaries, then basic data management is achieved, but the system cannot efficiently function across different enterprises or facilitate component upgrades and replacements

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecross-enterprise functionalityVSAvoidsystem integration complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system uses copying by creating and distributing instances of the process model instance to multiple users and devices. Rather than requiring complex inter-enterprise connections, the system replicates the relevant process model data locally for each user, enabling cross-enterprise collaboration while maintaining data consistency through centralized updates to the master process model instance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentUS9933767B2Dynamic state interface engine
Publication Date: 2018.04.03 SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SOFTWARE LLC
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AI summary

Systems and methods for providing a dynamically synchronized instance to a network device. A repository database stores a process model instance having a layout defined by data elements. A design tool processor coupled to the repository database provides the instance to a user device and a network device. The user device modifies data elements of the instance to generate a first version instance, and the design tool processor generates a dynamically synchronized instance for storing and serving the dynamically synchronized instance to a network device.