Industrial Machine Maintenance Dashboard for Remaining-Life Prioritization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Managing multiple industrial machines simultaneously is challenging due to varying deterioration rates, making it difficult for users to prioritize maintenance targets effectively.
Innovation Solution
A server-based maintenance management system that collects and analyzes state data from multiple industrial machines to determine their remaining lifespans, generating a machine list screen that includes identifiers and remaining life indicators, allowing users to easily prioritize maintenance tasks.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If a user manages multiple industrial machines simultaneously, then the user can monitor more equipment, but it becomes difficult to grasp the priority of maintenance targets due to varying deterioration rates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies color coding to visually represent the remaining life of each machine component. Different colors indicate different priority levels (e.g., green for healthy, yellow for caution, red for critical), allowing users to quickly grasp maintenance priorities across multiple machines without analyzing numerical data for each device.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transforms one-dimensional numerical remaining life data into a two-dimensional visual display showing both machine identifiers and their remaining life status simultaneously. This dimensional expansion allows users to compare multiple machines at once on a single screen, making priority assessment efficient even when managing many devices.
2Measurement precision
If detailed state data is collected from each machine, then measurement precision improves, but the complexity of processing and analyzing data from multiple machines increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the essential information needed for maintenance prioritization (remaining life and machine identifier) from the comprehensive state data collected from each machine. By filtering out unnecessary detailed data and focusing on the critical remaining life metric, the system maintains high measurement precision while significantly reducing data processing complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a simplified visual copy or representation of the complex machine state data. Instead of displaying or processing all raw state data from multiple machines, the system generates a simplified machine list screen that copies only the essential maintenance priority information in an easily consumable visual format.
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AI summary
A server displays information about a plurality of industrial machines on a display of a client computer. The server includes a storage device, a processor, and a communication device. The storage device stores state data indicative of states of a plurality of industrial machines. The processor determines remaining lives of the plurality of industrial machines from the state data. The processor generates data indicative of a machine list screen. The machine list screen includes identifiers of the plurality of industrial machines and the remaining lives. The communication device outputs the data indicative of the machine list screen to a client computer via a communication network.