Cross-Platform Power Plant Maintenance Standardization

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Solution Overview

Problem

The maintenance processes in power plants vary significantly due to different rules and regulations, requiring specialized personnel and reducing maintenance efficiency.

Innovation Solution

A cross-platform standardized maintenance method that collects and analyzes historical maintenance data, sets tags, and performs behavioral consistency analysis to unify maintenance behaviors across platforms, constructing standardized representations for consistent and inconsistent sub-behaviors, and automatically dispatches maintenance switching mapping tables for efficient maintenance.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If different power plants follow their own maintenance rules and regulations, then each plant can maintain its own maintenance standards, but the maintenance processes become inconsistent across platforms requiring specialized personnel and reducing maintenance efficiency

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemaintenance qualityVSAvoidmaintenance efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates a universal maintenance behavior representation framework that can accommodate multiple power plant platforms with different maintenance rules. By defining standardized behavior types, tags, and representations that can be mapped across different platforms, the system achieves multi-functionality where a single standardized framework serves multiple diverse maintenance systems, eliminating the need for specialized personnel for each platform while maintaining platform-specific requirements

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Reliability

If specialized personnel are required to repair and analyze maintenance data from different platforms, then accurate maintenance can be performed, but the maintenance efficiency is reduced due to the need for specialized knowledge

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemaintenance accuracyVSAvoidmaintenance accessibility
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an intermediary layer of standardized maintenance behavior representations and tags that mediate between diverse platform-specific maintenance data and the analysis process. This intermediary framework translates various platform maintenance behaviors into a common language, allowing non-specialized personnel to perform maintenance analysis without needing deep knowledge of each specific platform's maintenance rules and regulations

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Productivity

If maintenance behaviors are standardized across different platforms, then maintenance efficiency improves and non-professionals can perform maintenance, but the complexity of creating the standardized framework increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemaintenance efficiencyVSAvoidstandardization framework complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments maintenance behaviors into distinct, manageable components including behavior types, tags, and representations. By dividing the complex maintenance processes into discrete behavioral units that can be independently defined, tagged, and standardized, the framework becomes more manageable despite the complexity of accommodating multiple platforms. Each segment can be standardized independently and then combined into a comprehensive cross-platform maintenance system

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS20240281770A1Cross-platform standardized maintenance method for power plant
Publication Date: 2024.08.22 HUANENG JINAN HUANGTAI POWER GENERATION CO LTD
  • US20240281770A1 patent drawing

AI summary

A cross-platform standardized maintenance method for a power plant, including: construct the historical maintenance behavior of the corresponding power plant, set maintenance tags, carry out the behavioral consistency analysis on the tag setting results, then determine a plurality of first maintenance representations in the comprehensive maintenance set of consistent sub-behaviors, and extract high probability common representations from all the first maintenance representations corresponding to the same comprehensive maintenance set to construct standardized representations for the same consistent sub-behaviors; determine independent maintenance representations for inconsistent sub-behaviors based on the corresponding power generation platform, and construct the corresponding standardized representation based on the platform switching relationship; when maintenance is required, the maintenance switching mapping table with storage results consistent with that of the power plant to be maintained is automatically dispatched from the power plant cross platform to achieve standardized maintenance and effectively improve the maintenance efficiency.