Job Flow Failure Information Association Mechanism

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing job flow control systems fail to provide appropriate information to users when failures occur during execution, especially when new plug-ins are added, as they treat such failures as unknown and lack relevant data for troubleshooting.

Innovation Solution

An information processing device that stores failure information and associates unit processing units where failures occur with preceding units to generate new failure information, presenting this information to users and unifying similar failure data for easier understanding and management.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If new plug-ins are added to job flow after release, then system adaptability is improved, but failure information availability deteriorates (unknown failures occur)

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem adaptabilityVSAvoidfailure information availability
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by automatically capturing failure information and associating it with preceding unit processing units before the failure fully impacts the job flow. This preliminary capture ensures that even when new plug-ins are added after release, the failure information is already recorded and available for troubleshooting.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system establishes feedback mechanisms by continuously monitoring failure information and automatically updating the association between unit processing units and their preceding units. This feedback loop ensures that failure information remains accurate and available even as the system evolves with new plug-ins being added.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Measurement precision

If failure information is stored for all unit processing units, then measurement precision is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefailure information accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system merges failure information storage with the existing unit processing unit structure by associating failure data with preceding unit processing units. This merging approach allows precise failure information storage without creating separate complex storage mechanisms, as the failure information is integrated into the existing job flow execution framework.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentEP4064054A1Information processing device, program and information processing method
Publication Date: 2022.09.28 FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP
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AI summary

An information processing device includes a processor, and the processor: stores failure information; when a failure occurs in a series of processes executed in accordance with a definition of an order of plural unit processing units, presents failure information corresponding to the occurred failure among the failure information stored in the processor to a user; and when the failure information stored in the processor does not include failure information corresponding to the occurred failure, associate a unit processing unit where the failure has occurred and a unit processing unit preceding the unit processing unit where the failure has occurred with each other to be stored in the processor as a new failure information.