Modification Management System for Industrial Automation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Industrial automation systems require significant manual efforts and logistics to manage change requests and track modifications across complex networks of components, making it inefficient to identify and confirm changes in hardware components and configuration systems.
Innovation Solution
A modification management system utilizing a comparator, record generator, and link generator in processors to determine modified items, create records, and generate links between records and instruction files, facilitating efficient tracking and confirmation of modifications within the configuration system.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If manual methods are used to track and confirm change requests across complex networks of components, then flexibility and adaptability are maintained, but the time required and manual efforts increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual mechanical tracking methods with an automated computer-based system that uses processors to execute instructions for comparing configuration data, generating records, and creating links between change requests and their confirmations. This substitution of manual mechanical processes with automated computational processes directly resolves the contradiction by dramatically reducing time and effort while maintaining tracking capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary automated system that acts as a mediator between change request submission and confirmation. This intermediary system automatically compares configuration data, generates modification records, and creates linking records without requiring direct manual intervention at each step, thereby reducing time loss while maintaining process control.
2Reliability
If multiple separate tools and databases are used for each system phase (engineering, operation, maintenance), then system reliability and separation of duties are maintained, but the complexity of managing records and tracking changes increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the functionality of multiple separate tools and databases into a single integrated system. The computer-readable storage medium stores instructions that coordinate change request management across engineering, operation, and maintenance phases within one unified system, reducing the complexity of managing multiple separate tools while maintaining the reliability benefits of phase separation through structured data organization.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal system that performs multiple functions across different system phases. The same computer-based system handles change requests, comparisons, record generation, and confirmation tracking for engineering, operation, and maintenance phases, eliminating the need for separate specialized tools while maintaining phase-specific reliability requirements.
3Measurement precision
If detailed tracking of each modification item is implemented across complex networks of components, then measurement precision and reliability are improved, but the manual efforts and logistics required increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual mechanical tracking processes with automated computational processes that precisely compare configuration data before and after changes. The processor automatically executes instructions to identify modified items, generate detailed records, and create linking records, achieving high measurement precision without increasing manual effort.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a self-service system where the computer-based system automatically performs the tracking and comparison work without requiring manual intervention. The system self-comparles configuration data, self-generates modification records, and self-creates linking records, thereby achieving precise tracking while eliminating the burden of manual logistics.
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AI summary
A modification management system for a configuration system, includes, not limited to a comparator, a record generator and a link generator implemented in one or more processors. The comparator is configured to determine if a first modification item in a first instruction file is modified. The record generator is configured to create a first record and to store the first modification item in a first record when the first modification item is determined, by the comparator, to be modified. The link generator configured to generate a first link between the first record and the first instruction file, wherein the first instruction file is configured to define at least one modification item for the configuration system.