Operation Management Device Using Structured Identification Tree

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing system operation management systems face difficulties in flexibly managing control facilities and incidental facilities due to rigid database designs, making it challenging to adapt to changes in control facilities and limiting the ability to manage these facilities effectively.

Innovation Solution

An operation management device and method that utilize structured identification information managed through a tree structure, including logic inclusion identification information, to manage physical and logic inclusion relations between control facilities and incidental facilities, allowing for flexible management and decoupling from database dependencies.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If database-based information management is used for control facilities, then information can be stored and managed, but the system becomes rigid and cannot adapt to changes in control facilities

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinformation management reliabilityVSAvoidadaptability to control facility changes

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the information management function from the database by introducing an information management device that operates independently. This device receives information from multiple sources including databases, sensors, and other facilities, and manages them through a unified information management unit without being bound to any single database structure, thereby enabling adaptability while maintaining reliable information management.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The information management device acts as an intermediary between the database and the control facilities. It receives information from the database through a database interface unit but also accepts information from other sources, processes it through an information management unit, and distributes it as needed. This intermediary role decouples the system from database dependencies while maintaining information integrity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Ease of manufacture

If business application programs are developed in close association with databases, then database design can be optimized, but system specifications cannot be changed according to control facility changes

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedatabase design optimizationVSAvoidsystem specification flexibility

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of manufactureVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The invention extracts the information management function from the database and business application programs by introducing a dedicated information management device. This device contains an information management unit that handles information from various sources independently of database structure, allowing database design to remain optimized while enabling flexible adaptation to control facility changes through the decoupled information management layer.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The information management device provides universal information management capabilities that work with multiple information sources including databases, sensors, and other facilities. The information management unit can process and manage information regardless of its origin or format, making the system adaptable to different control facilities and specifications without requiring changes to the core information management functionality.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Ease of operation

If information is distributed to intermediate layers through business application programs, then control facilities can be managed, but the system lacks flexibility in managing incidental facilities

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontrol facility managementVSAvoidincidental facility management flexibility

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The invention merges the management of control facilities and incidental facilities into a single information management device. The information management unit receives information from both control facilities and incidental facilities (such as sensors), and manages them uniformly through the same interface and processing mechanisms, enabling flexible management of both types of facilities without requiring separate systems or complex distribution logic.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS10949423B2Operation management device, operation management method, and operation management system

Publication Date: 2021.03.16 HITACHI LTD

AI summary

Control facilities and incidental facilities in fields are flexibly managed. Since identification information enabling to identify uniquely information regarding control facilities of which design timing and architectures are mutually different or facilities incidental to the control facilities is encoded, pieces of identification information are coupled and uniqueness is guaranteed. Further, a parent-child relation between identifiers is constructed and the identifiers are structured as a tree structure based on the structure of the control facilities. A control facility operation management device manages combination of the structured identifiers and information of management target or combination of the structured identification information and identification information of a database.