Factory Facility Map Automation via Position-Communication Association
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Solution Overview
Problem
In factory operation management systems, manually associating manufacture facility arrangements with communication settings between management devices and controllers is labor-intensive and prone to errors, especially as the number of facilities increases.
Innovation Solution
An operation management system that automatically associates manufacture facility arrangements with communication settings by using a management device, a terminal device, and a controller, where identification and position information are acquired and stored to create a facility arrangement map, allowing for semi-automatic data input and accurate mapping.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual association of facility arrangement with communication settings is performed, then user control and verification are improved, but user load and error rate increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service by having the management device automatically acquire facility arrangement information and communication settings from controllers without requiring manual user input. The automated association process eliminates the need for users to manually record and input data, thereby reducing user load while maintaining accuracy through systematic automated data collection and matching.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical manual process of recording and inputting data with an automated information processing system. The management device automatically acquires facility arrangement information and communication settings, then performs the association process computationally, substituting manual mechanical operations with automated electronic data processing to eliminate human error and reduce operational burden.
2Productivity
If the number of manufacture facilities increases, then production capacity is improved, but the complexity of manual data input and association increases
Solution Approach 1:
The management device performs multiple functions: it manages facility arrangement information, acquires communication settings from multiple controllers, performs automated association, and handles operation monitoring. This multi-functional approach allows the system to scale to accommodate increasing numbers of facilities without proportionally increasing operational complexity, as the same automated processes handle any number of facilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-acquiring and storing facility arrangement information and communication settings before the association process is needed. Controllers provide their communication settings in advance, and the management device prepares the association data structures beforehand, so that when facilities are added or modified, the system can quickly adapt without complex real-time manual configuration.
3Measurement precision
If manual data input is performed, then data accuracy can be verified, but time consumption and error probability increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where the management device automatically verifies acquired data against expected formats and constraints. The automated association process includes validation steps that check data consistency, providing immediate feedback on data quality without requiring manual verification, thus maintaining accuracy while eliminating time-consuming manual checking.
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AI summary
An operation management system according to the present invention stores manufacture facility information in which identification information capable of uniquely specifying a manufacture facility is associated with position information of the manufacture facility in a manufacture facility information storage unit, a management device acquires the manufacture facility information from the manufacture facility information storage unit, arranges the manufacture facility on an arrangement map based on the manufacture facility information, and conducts communication setting for acquiring operation information, and the management device acquires the operation information of the manufacture facility via communication based on the communication setting, and displays the acquired operation information on the arrangement map.