Integrated Monitoring Module Display for Machine Condition Assessment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Operators and technicians near machines cannot quickly and accurately assess the operational status or compare current operational characteristics with historical data due to remote positioning of diagnostic platforms in existing monitoring systems.
Innovation Solution
A monitoring system with integrated displays that show real-time and historical data from sensors, allowing users to visually compare current and previous machine operating conditions, enabling immediate assessment and comparison.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If diagnostic platforms are positioned remotely from monitors and machines, then system complexity is reduced and centralization is improved, but operators cannot quickly and accurately assess operational status and compare current with historical data
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the diagnostic platform and display interface directly at the monitoring module location, merging previously separate functions (remote diagnostic platform and local monitor) into an integrated unit. This allows operators to access both real-time and historical data locally without requiring remote system access, resolving the contradiction between system centralization and operational accessibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds a temporal dimension by displaying both real-time operational data and historical data simultaneously on the same interface. This dimensional expansion allows operators to compare current machine state with past performance without requiring separate systems or remote access, improving assessment capability while maintaining local operation.
2Adaptability or versatility
If diagnostic platforms are positioned remotely, then centralization is improved, but operators cannot easily compare current operational characteristics with historical characteristics
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges real-time data acquisition capabilities with historical data storage and display functions within the same local monitoring module. This integration ensures that both current operational characteristics and historical characteristics are accessible simultaneously at the machine location, eliminating information access limitations while maintaining system versatility.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-loading and storing historical operational data locally at each monitoring module before it is needed for comparison. This ensures that when operators need to compare current with historical data, both datasets are immediately available without requiring remote system access or data retrieval delays.
3Ease of operation
If displays are integrated with monitoring modules, then ease of operation is improved by enabling local assessment, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements universality by designing the monitoring module to perform multiple functions: sensing operational parameters, processing data, storing historical information, and displaying both real-time and historical data. This multi-functional integration consolidates what would otherwise require separate devices, improving ease of operation while managing complexity through functional consolidation rather than addition.
Data Source
AI summary
A monitoring system for use in monitoring a machine includes at least one sensor for use in measuring at least one operating condition of the machine and at least one monitoring module coupled to the at least one sensor. The at least one monitoring module includes at least one display formed integrally with the monitoring module and configured to display real-time data representative of a currently measured operating condition of the machine and to display historical data representative of a previously measured operating condition of the machine such that a user is enabled to visually compare the historical data with the real-time data.