Monitoring Circuit for Unified Event Streams in Production Plants
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional monitoring systems in industrial production plants fail to provide a comprehensive overview of machinery status due to proprietary data formats and lack of real-time correlation between machines, leading to potential production stops and defective goods.
Innovation Solution
A monitoring circuit that transforms status data from multiple sensors and actuators into a universal event data stream, including timestamps and meta-data, enabling real-time correlation and visualization across machines.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If proprietary data formats are used by individual machines, then each machine can provide accurate status data about its components and actuators, but it becomes difficult to maintain an overview of the entire production plant and correlate status changes across different machines
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary component (monitoring circuit or gateway) that receives proprietary status data from individual machines and transforms it into a universal data format. This intermediary layer enables seamless communication and correlation between machines with different proprietary formats without requiring changes to the machines themselves, thus maintaining data accuracy while solving compatibility issues.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies parameter changes by transforming the data format parameters from proprietary machine-specific formats into a standardized universal format. This transformation involves mapping different data structures, protocols, and syntaxes into a common framework, enabling uniform processing and correlation of status data across all machines in the production plant.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple proprietary data formats are supported, then all machinery can be monitored using a single application, but the complexity of the monitoring system increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal monitoring system that can handle multiple proprietary data formats through a standardized interface. The monitoring circuit or gateway is designed with multi-functionality to support various machine protocols and formats while presenting a unified view to the user, thereby achieving versatility without proportionally increasing system complexity.
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AI summary
A monitoring circuit (100) comprises at least one interface (102) for obtaining status data (110) of a plurality of sensors or actuators (106) and for communicating with a remote server (108). Processing circuitry (104) of the monitoring circuit (100) is configured to obtain a plurality of units of status data (110) of the plurality of sensors or actuators (106), the plurality of sensors or actuators (106) being part of machinery or being arranged in an environment of the machinery. The processing circuitry (104) is further configured to transform the plurality of units of status data (110) in an event data stream (112) comprising a plurality of events. An event comprises information on at least one unit of status data (110). Further, the processing circuitry is further configured to provide the event data stream (112) to the remote server (108).