Automated Event Information Presentation for Manufacturing Abnormalities

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing manufacturing systems lack the ability to automatically present detailed response methods for handling events such as abnormalities in monitoring targets, requiring users to manually request and identify relevant information for problem resolution.

Innovation Solution

An information presentation apparatus and method that automatically detects abnormal events by analyzing monitoring information, generates search data, and presents relevant information from a database for handling the detected event, enabling quick identification of causes and countermeasures.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If a user manually requests information for handling events, then the system can provide detailed response methods, but the response time increases and operational complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvehandling capabilityVSAvoidresponse time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-storing event handling information in a database and pre-processing monitoring data. When an event occurs, the system immediately searches for relevant information from the database and presents it automatically, eliminating the need for manual user requests and reducing response time while maintaining reliable handling capabilities.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables self-service by automatically detecting events, generating search queries, searching the database, and presenting relevant information without requiring user intervention. The system serves itself by autonomously completing the entire information retrieval and presentation process, thereby reducing response time while maintaining comprehensive handling capabilities.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Loss of time

If the system automatically presents information, then response time decreases, but the complexity of the system increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresponse timeVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of timeVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the complex information handling process into distinct functional modules: event detection module, search query generation module, database search module, and information presentation module. Each module performs a specific function independently, making the overall complex system more manageable and maintainable while achieving automatic rapid response.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces an intermediary search query generation component that translates monitoring events into database search queries. This intermediary layer simplifies the interaction between the event detection system and the database, reducing the apparent complexity by providing a standardized interface for information retrieval while enabling automatic rapid response.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Measurement precision

If detailed monitoring information is stored and searched, then the precision of event handling information increases, but the storage requirements and processing complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation precisionVSAvoidprocessing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts only the necessary information from the monitoring data and stores it in the database with appropriate keywords and metadata. When an event occurs, the system extracts relevant information from the database using targeted search queries, achieving high information precision while reducing storage requirements and processing complexity by only handling essential data.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system applies local quality by storing monitoring information with specific keywords, tags, and metadata tailored to different event types. This allows the system to retrieve only the relevant local information needed for each specific event, achieving high precision for individual queries while avoiding the complexity of processing all stored data uniformly.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS11182423B2Information presentation method and apparatus
Publication Date: 2021.11.23 CANON KK
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AI summary

An information presentation apparatus obtains monitoring information that indicates a state of a monitoring target, accumulates it in a storage unit, and detects, based on the monitoring information accumulated in the storage unit, the occurrence of an information presentation trigger event. The information presentation apparatus generates, based on the monitoring information accumulated in the storage unit, search data for searching for relevant information related to the detected event, uses the generated the search data to search for the relevant information, and generates presentation information for present the relevant information found by the searching.