Production Site Manager System for Deviation Alerting

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current software applications for production site management are often underutilized due to unnecessary information and distractions, leading to potential delays and failures in meeting daily objectives at complex production sites like construction or mining sites, where personnel are too busy to prioritize planning and monitoring.

Innovation Solution

A production site manager system that predicts daily objectives based on historic data and real-time information, providing deviation alerts only when necessary to minimize distractions and offering actionable insights to ensure objective fulfillment, and confirming objective achievement at the end of the shift to avoid unnecessary disturbances.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If current software applications provide comprehensive monitoring and information to personnel, then complete information about production site status is available, but personnel are disturbed with unnecessary information and requests for attention

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation completenessVSAvoidpersonnel distraction
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts only the essential information needed for decision-making from the comprehensive monitoring data. It filters out unnecessary information and presents only critical deviations and actionable insights to personnel, thereby maintaining information completeness while eliminating distractions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system applies different information presentation strategies based on the specific context and deviation type. Critical deviations receive immediate attention with detailed information, while normal operations receive minimal or no information, optimizing the information quality delivered to personnel in different situations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Speed

If personnel focus on firefighting obstacles at the production site, then immediate response to critical issues is improved, but planning and monitoring tasks are neglected

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresponse speedVSAvoidobjective fulfillment
Core Design Contradiction:
SpeedVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs automated monitoring, analysis, and alerting without requiring continuous personnel intervention. It independently tracks production objectives, detects deviations, and notifies personnel only when action is needed, allowing personnel to focus on field operations while the system handles monitoring tasks.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system provides continuous automated feedback on production status and objective fulfillment. This enables personnel to maintain focus on critical field tasks while the system reliably monitors and reports on overall production goals, ensuring both rapid response and objective fulfillment.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Measurement precision

If comprehensive monitoring is performed continuously, then all deviations are detected promptly, but personnel are disturbed frequently with alerts

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedeviation detection accuracyVSAvoidpersonnel time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs continuous comprehensive monitoring but only triggers alerts for partial cases - specifically when deviations exceed predefined thresholds or represent critical issues. This maintains high detection accuracy while avoiding unnecessary disturbances for minor or expected variations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically adjusts alert thresholds and notification parameters based on production context, historical data, and deviation severity. This optimization ensures that alerts are generated with high precision for truly significant deviations while minimizing false or unnecessary notifications that would consume personnel time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentEP4303787A1System and method for handling an objective associated with performance at a production site
Publication Date: 2024.01.10 VOLVO TRUCK CORP
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AI summary

The present invention relates to a method performed by a production site manager system (110) for handling an objective associated with performance at a production site (100). The system obtains a request to handle the objective on behalf of a human production site manager (105). When the request has been obtained, the system predicts the objective for the performance at the production site. The system obtains real time information of performance at the production site. The system compares the real time information with the objective. When a result of the comparing indicates a deviation, the system provides, at a first time instance, deviation information indicating the deviation. When the result of the comparing does not indicate the deviation, the system provides, at a second time instance, confirmation information indicating that a conformation of that the production site meets the objective.