Mobile Device Content Management for Industrial Systems
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Solution Overview
Problem
Industrial systems lack efficient methods for enabling and installing new content on intelligent industrial devices, limiting their functionality and operability within industrial networks.
Innovation Solution
A mobile device with a processor and memory is connected to an industrial network, enabling embedded content and installing new content on intelligent industrial devices through human interface modules or wireless access points, using computer executable instructions to manage communications and content delivery.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional industrial device content management methods are used, then device functionality is limited to pre-installed content, but adaptability and versatility of the device are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The mobile device is designed to perform multiple functions: it serves as both a general-purpose mobile device and a content management tool for industrial devices. The system allows the same mobile device to enable embedded content, install new content, and manage multiple intelligent industrial devices through a unified interface, eliminating the need for specialized content management hardware.
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile device acts as an intermediary between the user and the intelligent industrial device for content management operations. Instead of requiring direct complex interactions between the industrial device and content sources, the mobile device mediates these operations through wireless connections, simplifying the overall system architecture while enabling flexible content management.
2Ease of operation
If content installation requires network access, then content delivery is reliable, but operability in locations without network access is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables content to be installed or enabled on intelligent industrial devices before network access is needed. By allowing content management operations to be performed in advance when network access is available, the system ensures that devices can operate reliably in locations without network access, as the content is already present on the device.
3Adaptability or versatility
If embedded content is used, then device functionality is enhanced, but device complexity increases due to content management requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The content management functionality is extracted from the intelligent industrial device itself and relocated to the mobile device. This separation allows the industrial device to focus on its core industrial functions while the mobile device handles content management tasks, reducing the complexity burden on the industrial device while still enabling enhanced functionality through embedded content.
Data Source
AI summary
A method includes connecting a mobile device to an intelligent industrial device of an industrial system, and using the mobile device, one of: enabling embedded content of the intelligent industrial device; and installing new content in the intelligent industrial device. A non-transitory computer readable medium has computer executable instructions which, when executed by a processor of a mobile device connected to an industrial network of an industrial system, cause the mobile device to enable embedded content of an intelligent industrial device of the industrial system, or install new content in the intelligent industrial device.