Vehicle Test Facility Operation Rate Analysis System

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing systems for analyzing the operation rate of vehicle test facilities are labor-intensive and time-consuming, particularly when managing multiple facilities across different sites, as they rely on manual calculations and varied user methods, leading to inaccuracies in determining operational hours.

Innovation Solution

An operation rate analysis system that connects multiple test facilities, obtaining operation information, and calculates operation rates based on user-set judgment conditions, incorporating electricity consumption, rotor rotation, and test names, with options for AND/OR conditions to accurately determine operational hours and facilitate centralized management.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If manual calculation methods are used to determine operation rates, then flexibility in calculation approaches is maintained, but labor intensity and time consumption increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecalculation method flexibilityVSAvoidoperation rate calculation efficiency

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables automatic self-calculation of operation rates by collecting operational data from test facilities and computing results without manual intervention. The automatic operation rate calculation unit processes data from multiple facilities independently, eliminating the need for manual calculation while maintaining accuracy.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces manual mechanical calculation processes with an automated information processing system. The system collects operational data electronically from test facilities and uses computational algorithms to determine operation rates, substituting human labor with automated digital processing.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Measurement precision

If operation rates are calculated for multiple test facilities separately, then individual facility accuracy is maintained, but total management time and labor increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveoperation rate calculation accuracyVSAvoidtime for collecting and calculating operation rates

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system merges the calculation processes of multiple test facilities into a single integrated system. The operation rate calculation unit simultaneously processes data from multiple facilities using unified calculation conditions, achieving both individual accuracy and collective efficiency in one operation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates universal calculation conditions that can be applied across multiple test facilities simultaneously. The same calculation logic and standards are universally applied to all facilities, enabling consistent accurate measurement across the entire system without requiring separate manual calculations for each facility.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Measurement precision

If standardized operation judgment conditions are applied across multiple facilities, then comparison accuracy improves, but adaptability to different facility characteristics decreases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveoperation comparison accuracyVSAvoidfacility-specific condition flexibility

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adjusts calculation conditions based on facility characteristics while maintaining standardized frameworks. Calculation conditions can be modified according to specific facility types, test item categories, and operational contexts, allowing the system to adapt to different facility characteristics while preserving comparability through consistent evaluation criteria.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS11475380B2Vehicle test facility operation rate analysis system and method

Publication Date: 2022.10.18 HORIBA LTD

AI summary

This collectively manages an operation rate of multiple test facilities, and is an operation rate analysis system that is communicably connected to multiple test facilities that test a specimen as being a vehicle or a part of the vehicle and that analyzes an operation rate of the above-mentioned multiple test facilities, and that comprises an operation information obtaining part that obtains operation information of the above-mentioned multiple test facilities, a setting receiving part that receives a user setting relating to an operation judgment condition to judge whether each of the multiple test facilities is in operation or not, and an operation rate calculating part that calculates the operation rate of each of the multiple test facilities or the operation rate of all of the multiple test facilities from the operation information obtained by the operation information obtaining part based on the operation judgment condition received by the setting receiving part.