Automation Transfer Timing Verification for Sample Integrity
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Solution Overview
Problem
Automation systems face issues with sample deterioration due to excessively long exposure times during transfer operations, leading to disrupted processes and incorrect results, as existing scheduling methods do not account for the duration of transfer operations and potential device faults or communication issues.
Innovation Solution
A management method that determines the total duration of transfer operations based on node information and verifies the reasonableness of temporal constraints to ensure the execution duration meets the required constraints, preventing sample deterioration and ensuring smooth process execution.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If the automation system schedules operations based on time without considering transfer operation duration, then the scheduling is simple, but the sample exposure time becomes excessively long leading to sample deterioration
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary calculation of transfer operation durations and pre-determines temporal constraints before executing the automated process. By calculating the total duration of transfer operations in advance and verifying temporal constraints, the system ensures that sample exposure time does not exceed acceptable limits, thereby preventing sample deterioration while maintaining automation efficiency.
2Productivity
If the system does not verify temporal constraints, then the process execution is fast, but sample deterioration occurs due to excessive exposure time
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements a feedback mechanism by verifying temporal constraints after calculating transfer operation durations. The verification process checks whether the total duration of transfer operations between adjacent nodes satisfies the temporal constraints. This feedback loop ensures that sample exposure time is controlled within acceptable limits, preventing sample deterioration while maintaining efficient process execution.
3Reliability
If the system calculates total duration of transfer operations, then sample exposure time is controlled, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the automated process into discrete nodes and transfer operations, allowing for individual calculation of transfer durations between adjacent nodes. By dividing the overall process into manageable segments, the system can accurately track and control sample exposure time without requiring a complete redesign of the scheduling system, thus limiting the increase in complexity.
4Reliability
If the system verifies temporal constraints for all transfer operations, then sample integrity is ensured, but the verification time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts and verifies only the critical temporal constraints related to transfer operations that directly affect sample integrity. By focusing verification efforts on the essential temporal constraints between adjacent nodes rather than all possible operations, the system ensures sample integrity while minimizing the time consumed by verification processes.
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AI summary
Provided are an automation process management method (1000) and apparatus (400), an electronic device (500), and a storage medium. The management method (1000) comprises: acquiring time constraint information and node information between two adjacent nodes in an automation process, wherein the time constraint information is used for constraining execution time of a transfer operation of a target between two adjacent nodes (S1200); determining the total time of the transfer operation on the basis of the node information of the two adjacent nodes (S1400); and on the basis of the total time, verifying whether the time constraint information is reasonable (S1600). Therefore, the effectiveness of the target in the automation process can be ensured, thereby ensuring the automation process to be performed accurately and smoothly.