Hierarchical Spatial Model for Facility Maintenance Diagnosis
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Solution Overview
Problem
Maintenance personnel face difficulties in locating target objects and diagnosing issues due to a lack of up-to-date contextual information, leading to inefficient and time-consuming maintenance processes in facilities.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for generating and transmitting an up-to-date hierarchical spatial model of a facility, including spatial data, object relationships, and contextual information via a graphical user interface, enabling a 360-degree view of the facility's objects and their interdependencies.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If maintenance personnel manually search for target objects and diagnose issues without a spatial model system, then they can perform maintenance tasks, but the process becomes time-consuming and inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-establishes a spatial hierarchy model that organizes all facility objects (spaces, assets, components) into a structured framework before maintenance needs arise. This preliminary organization enables maintenance personnel to immediately access target objects and their relationships without manual searching, directly reducing search time and improving maintenance efficiency
Solution Approach 2:
The spatial hierarchy model acts as an intermediary between maintenance personnel and facility objects. Instead of directly searching for objects, personnel interact with the visual representation in the graphical interface, which mediates by translating user requests into precise object identification and relationship display, eliminating the need for manual location searches
2Ease of operation
If maintenance personnel lack contextual information about facility objects, then they can locate objects, but they cannot efficiently diagnose issues or understand relationships between objects
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments contextual information into hierarchical levels corresponding to the spatial hierarchy (facility level, space level, asset level, component level). When maintenance personnel select a target object, the system displays contextual information specific to that level and its relationships, presenting comprehensive diagnostic data in an organized, manageable format rather than overwhelming all information at once
Solution Approach 2:
The spatial hierarchy model serves multiple functions simultaneously: it locates target objects, displays their relationships with other objects, and provides contextual information for diagnosis. This multi-functional approach eliminates the need for separate systems for location, relationship mapping, and information retrieval, ensuring maintenance personnel have all necessary contextual information integrated in one interface
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AI summary
Disclosed are methods and systems for navigating a graphical user interface. A method may include, for example, receiving, at a system comprising at least one processor, spatial data associated with one or more objects within an entity organization; identifying, using the at least one processor and from the spatial data, one or more relationships between the one or more objects; generating, using the at least one processor and based on the identifying, a spatial hierarchy for the one or more objects; receiving, at the system from a user device, a visualization request for a target object from the one or more objects; and transmitting, by the system and responsive to the receiving, instructions to the user device to display a visual representation of at least a portion of the spatial hierarchy corresponding to the target object.