Plant Operation Support System for Predictive Resource Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional disaster-recovery-operation management systems fail to effectively predict and manage resource requirements, leading to shortages of staff and equipment just before execution, resulting in inefficiencies and operability issues.
Innovation Solution
A plant operation support-system server that acquires plant data, determines current and predicted resource needs based on procedure manuals, and assigns resources to manage current situations and anticipate potential deficiencies, ensuring adequate resource allocation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If resources are assigned based on current job requirements only, then current operational needs are met, but future resource deficiencies are not predicted and resource shortages occur just before execution
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary resource assignment by predicting future procedure manual locations and determining required resources in advance. The predictive procedure manual location determination unit forecasts upcoming jobs, and the predictive required-resource determination unit identifies needed resources before they are actually required, allowing proactive resource allocation rather than reactive responses to shortages
Solution Approach 2:
The system establishes a feedback loop where the current procedure manual location determination unit continuously monitors actual progress, compares it with predictions, and updates the predictive units accordingly. This feedback mechanism refines future predictions and improves resource allocation accuracy over time, ensuring reliable resource availability while minimizing detection delays
2Ease of operation
If separate assignment of each resource type is performed, then detailed resource control is achieved, but management complexity increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The management determination unit serves multiple functions simultaneously: it performs current resource assignment, predictive resource assignment, and coordination between different determination units. This multi-functional approach consolidates what would otherwise require separate complex systems, simplifying overall management while maintaining detailed control over individual resource types
Solution Approach 2:
The system merges the current procedure manual location determination with the predictive procedure manual location determination into a unified framework. By combining these determination functions and their associated resource assignment processes, the system achieves detailed resource control without the proportional increase in management complexity that would result from completely separate systems
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AI summary
An object of this invention is to provide a plant operation support-system server and a plant operation support system which can manage the current situation of overall resources that are required for performing jobs corresponding to a procedure manual, and can further achieve resource management with enough margin based on future prediction. Using a current procedure-manual location determination unit, a control unit of a plant operation support-system server determines a current location in procedure-manual data DM, based on a condition of the plant acquired through sensors by a plant data acquisition unit. When there is a change in the current location, the control unit causes a current-situation management determination unit to assign currently-required resources according to the current position and causes a predictive management determination unit to predict presence/absence of resource deficiency.