Production Machine Error Recovery Through Time-Synced Diagnostics
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Solution Overview
Problem
Production machines are susceptible to environmental changes that disrupt precision and efficiency, leading to lost production time and financial losses, necessitating improved systems for minimizing these downstream consequences.
Innovation Solution
A computing system that receives and converts production machine data from a non-standardized format to a standardized format, synchronizes the data in time, and generates display data for remote access, facilitating continuous monitoring of machine conditions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If production machine data is collected and monitored continuously, then machine reliability and diagnostic capability are improved, but data processing complexity and system complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary processing system that acts as a mediator between the production machine data sources and the diagnostic interface. This intermediary layer standardizes diverse data formats, synchronizes multiple data streams temporally, and aggregates information before presentation, thereby improving reliability without proportionally increasing complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a virtual copy or digital representation of the production machine's operational state through standardized data aggregation and time-synchronization. This digital model allows diagnostic analysis without directly interfering with the physical machine operations, enabling reliable monitoring while keeping the physical system complexity manageable.
2Measurement precision
If production machine data from multiple sources is aggregated and synchronized, then diagnostic accuracy is improved, but data processing time and computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary actions by pre-establishing data synchronization protocols and standardized formats before actual diagnostic processing occurs. Data streams are pre-synchronized to a common time reference and pre-aggregated into standardized structures, so that when diagnostic analysis is needed, the processing time is minimized while maintaining high accuracy.
3Productivity
If production machine monitoring system provides real-time data access, then productivity and response time are improved, but system complexity and network requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal data interface that serves multiple functions: real-time monitoring, historical analysis, diagnostic evaluation, and predictive maintenance planning. This multi-functional standardized interface allows different users and systems to access production data simultaneously without requiring separate complex systems for each function, thereby improving productivity while controlling overall system complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods receive production machine data associated with a production machine to facilitate production diagnostics, the production machine data including a record of executed code for producing a product via the production machine, the production machine data being received in a non-standardized format. The production machine data are converted to a standardized format as standardized production machine data and stored as an aggregation of the standardized production machine data. The standardized production machine data are synchronized in accordance with instances in time and display data are generated that includes a time-based digital representation of the synchronized and standardized production machine data that indicates continuous production machine conditions over a period of time, where the display data indicates conditions of the production machine. The display data are transmitted to computing device(s) to facilitate remote access over a network to the continuous production machine conditions over the period of time.