Centralized Industrial Machine Management System for Cross-Facility Data Sharing
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Solution Overview
Problem
In industrial machine management systems, users face challenges in sharing and managing setting information across multiple machines due to differing system configurations, leading to inefficient data management and lack of centralized control.
Innovation Solution
An industrial machine management system that includes a terminal for user input and an industrial machine management device with a reception and storage unit, which acquires and stores management information associated with individual identification information, allowing for centralized management and sharing of user-defined settings across various industrial machines.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users manage information on industrial machines individually, then each user can control their own machine settings, but setting information and other data cannot be shared smoothly across different machines and facilities
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a management server as an intermediary between users and industrial machines. The server receives management information from multiple users and machines, stores it in a database, and distributes it as needed. This mediator enables smooth data sharing across different facilities while keeping the individual machine management simple.
Solution Approach 2:
The management server provides universal functionality by serving multiple users and multiple types of industrial machines simultaneously. It handles diverse management information (settings, maintenance schedules, operational data) through a unified platform, enabling cross-machine and cross-facility data sharing without requiring separate systems for each machine.
2Productivity
If a centralized management system is implemented, then data sharing and centralized control are improved, but system complexity and infrastructure requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The management server acts as a centralized intermediary that coordinates between multiple users and machines. It consolidates management functions in one location, enabling efficient data sharing and control while presenting a simple interface to individual users who continue to manage their machines as before.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges multiple individual management systems into a single centralized management server. By combining database storage, information processing, and distribution functions into one system, it achieves operational efficiency improvements while reducing the overall system configuration complexity compared to having separate management systems for each machine.
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AI summary
An industrial machine management system includes a maintenance-use portable terminal and a cloud server. The maintenance-use portable terminal includes a data communication unit for transmitting management information for a user, which is set in accordance with an input from the user in regard to an industrial machine to be managed. The cloud server includes a data communication unit for receiving the management information for the user transmitted by the data communication unit, and a machine information storage for storing the management information for the user received by the data communication unit in association with individual identification information on the industrial machine to be managed.