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US 11,893,873 B2Granted
Information collection apparatus, computer-readable recording medium, and information collection method
AssigneeYokogawa Electric Corporation
InventorsRyuusuke Morita, Ryuji Kobayashi, Wataru Kinoshita, Satoru Akiyama
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Abstract
An information collection apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives an alarm indicating an abnormality related to a control station that is for a plant, and a collection unit that collects investigation information on a cause of the alarm from a part of the control station, where the part is identified based on the alarm received by the receiving unit.
Claims20
An information collection apparatus comprising:
- a receiving unit that receive an alarm indicating an abnormality related to a control station that is for a plant;
- and
- a collection unit that collects investigation information on a cause of the alarm from a part of the control station, the part being identified based on the alarm received by the receiving unit, wherein
- the alarm is identified in association with an arbitration that is a combination of part information indicating a type of a part of the control station and location information indicating a location of the part,
- the part information includes at least one of
- information indicating a control bus that is connected to the control station,
- information indicating a central processing unit (CPU) card in the control station,
- information indicating an entire input/output (I/O) nest in the control station, and
- information indicating an I/O module in the control station,
- the location information includes at least one of
- information indicating locations of domains of a control bus that divides a plurality of control stations by each of the domains,
- information indicating a location of the control station in a domain, information indicating a location of one of an operating CPU and a waiting CPU between redundant CPUs in the control station,
- information indicating a location of an I/O system in the control station,
- information indicating a location of an I/O nest in the control station,
- information indicating a location of an I/O device unit in the I/O nest, and
- information indicating a location of a slot in the I/O device unit, and
- the collection unit collects the investigation information from a part of the control station, the part being identified based on the arbitration of the alarm received by the receiving unit.
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A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having stored therein an information collection program that causes a computer to execute:
- receiving an alarm indicating an abnormality related to a control station that is for a plant;
- and
- collecting investigation information on a cause of the alarm from a part of the control station, the part being identified based on the received alarm, wherein
- the alarm is identified in association with an arbitration that is a combination of part information indicating a type of a part of the control station and location information indicating a location of the part,
- the part information includes at least one of
- information indicating a control bus that is connected to the control station,
- information indicating a central processing unit (CPU) card in the control station,
- information indicating an entire input/output (I/O) nest in the control station, and
- information indicating an I/O module in the control station,
- the location information includes at least one of
- information indicating locations of domains of a control bus that divides a plurality of control stations by each of the domains,
- information indicating a location of the control station in a domain,
- information indicating a location of one of an operating CPU and a waiting CPU between redundant CPUs in the control station,
- information indicating a location of an I/O system in the control station,
- information indicating a location of an I/O nest in the control station,
- information indicating a location of an I/O device unit in the I/O nest, and
- information indicating a location of a slot in the I/O device unit, and
- the investigation information is collected from a part of the control station, the part being identified based on the arbitration of the alarm received.
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An information collection method comprising:
- receiving, by an information collection apparatus, an alarm indicating an abnormality related to a control station that is for a plant;
- and
- collecting, by the information collection apparatus, investigation information on a cause of the alarm from a part of the control station, the part being identified based on the received alarm, wherein
- the alarm is identified in association with an arbitration that is a combination of part information indicating a type of a part of the control station and location information indicating a location of the part,
- the part information includes at least one of
- information indicating a control bus that is connected to the control station,
- information indicating a central processing unit (CPU) card in the control station,
- information indicating an entire input/output (I/O) nest in the control station, and
- information indicating an I/O module in the control station,
- the location information includes at least one of
- information indicating locations of domains of a control bus that divides a plurality of control stations by each of the domains,
- information indicating a location of the control station in a domain,
- information indicating a location of one of an operating CPU and a waiting CPU between redundant CPUs in the control station,
- information indicating a location of an I/O system in the control station,
- information indicating a location of an I/O nest in the control station,
- information indicating a location of an I/O device unit in the I/O nest, and
- information indicating a location of a slot in the I/O device unit, and
- the information collection apparatus collects the investigation information from a part of the control station, the part being identified based on the arbitration of the alarm received.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.