Press Machine State Display for Visual Failure Urgency
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Solution Overview
Problem
Operators of press machines struggle to determine the urgency of failures and abnormalities based solely on numerical evaluation values from AI systems, making it difficult to assess the severity and nature of machine conditions.
Innovation Solution
A press machine and method that visually display the operating state using a color-coded band shape, combining multiple evaluation values such as degree of abnormality, production stability, and manual operation frequency, allowing operators to easily recognize temporal variations and abnormalities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If numerical evaluation values from AI systems are used to indicate operating state, then failure prediction capability is improved, but operator's ability to determine urgency and severity of abnormalities deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies color-coded visual indicators (e.g., green, yellow, red) to represent different levels of abnormality and urgency in the operating state. This transforms abstract numerical AI evaluation values into intuitive visual signals that operators can immediately comprehend, resolving the contradiction between maintaining AI-based failure prediction accuracy and improving operator ease of interpretation.
2Loss of information
If multiple evaluation values are displayed numerically, then information completeness is improved, but visual comprehensibility and ease of determination deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from one-dimensional numerical display to two-dimensional visual representation by mapping evaluation values to color codes and graphical indicators. This dimensional transformation allows multiple pieces of information (different evaluation values, their relationships, and urgency levels) to be presented simultaneously in a visually comprehensible format, maintaining information completeness while dramatically improving ease of determination.
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AI summary
A press machine is a press machine configured to press a workpiece. The press machine includes a display that displays a state display image which extends in a band shape and indicates an operating state of the press machine during a predetermined period of time up to date. The display displays time series variation in the operating state during the predetermined period of time by variation in a color of the state display image in the band shape in an extending direction.