Automated identification of available operations for equipment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing operation terminal systems allow users to select inappropriate operations for equipment, leading to inefficiencies and potential errors due to the inability to differentiate between available and unavailable operations.
Innovation Solution
An operation terminal with a display unit, communication unit, and control unit that identifies available operations based on equipment specifications and excludes unavailable options from the user interface, ensuring only appropriate operations can be selected and executed.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If all operation candidates are displayed on the operation screen, then the user has more operation choices, but the user may select unavailable operations that cannot be used with the operation target equipment
Solution Approach 1:
The control device performs preliminary identification of available operations for the operation target equipment before displaying operation candidates on the operation terminal. This preliminary action ensures that only operations compatible with the equipment's current state and capabilities are presented to the user, preventing selection of unavailable operations while maintaining comprehensive operation choices.
Solution Approach 2:
The control device receives operation result information from the operation target equipment and uses this feedback to dynamically identify and update the set of available operations. This feedback mechanism ensures that the displayed operation candidates accurately reflect the equipment's current capabilities and state, resolving the contradiction between providing comprehensive choices and ensuring reliability.
2Reliability
If the operation terminal displays only available operations, then inappropriate operations are prevented, but the system complexity increases due to identification requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The control device acts as an intermediary between the operation terminal and the operation target equipment. It receives operation result information from the equipment, identifies available operations based on this information, and transmits the identified operations to the operation terminal for display. This intermediary role manages the complexity by centralizing the identification logic in the control device rather than requiring complex processing in the operation terminal or equipment themselves.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments the operation management functionality into distinct components: the operation terminal for display and user interaction, the control device for identification and coordination, and the operation target equipment for execution. This segmentation distributes complexity across multiple components, with each handling specific tasks, thereby reducing the overall system complexity while ensuring reliable operation availability.
3Reliability
If the system identifies available operations based on equipment specifications, then operation appropriateness is ensured, but the time required to display operations increases
Solution Approach 1:
The control device performs preliminary identification of available operations based on equipment specifications and current state before the user needs to select an operation. By pre-identifying compatible operations and preparing the operation candidate list in advance, the system ensures operation appropriateness while minimizing the time required at the moment of user interaction.
Solution Approach 2:
The control device continuously monitors operation result information from the equipment and maintains an up-to-date identification of available operations. This continuous action ensures that the operation candidates displayed to the user are always appropriate without requiring time-consuming re-evaluation when the user interacts with the terminal, as the identification process operates continuously in the background.
Data Source
AI summary
An operation terminal operates an operation target equipment. The operation terminal comprises: a display unit configured to display an operation screen for the operation target equipment; a communication unit configured to perform communication; and a control unit configured to control to transmit, by using the communication unit, at least one operation instruction from among candidates of available operations for the operation target equipment. The control unit controls a display object included in the operation screen, on the basis of a result of the operation instruction.