Assistance device and mechanical system
AssigneeFanuc Corporation
InventorTatsuo Karakama
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Abstract
An assistance device configured to assist operations with respect to a plurality of machines is provided with: an information storage unit for storing machine information including at least one of maintenance history information, abnormality history information, and predicted service life information for each of the plurality of machines, in association with identification information of the machine; a criteria accepting unit for accepting search criteria for specifying desired machine information; and an information retrieval unit for comparing the search criteria accepted by the criteria accepting unit with the machine information stored in the information storage unit, and extracting the identification information of the machine corresponding to the machine information matching the search criteria.
Claims7
An assistance device configured to assist an operation on a plurality of machines, the assistance device comprising:
- a processor with a memory configured to perform tasks;
- an information storage unit configured to store machine information including at least one type of information out of maintenance history information, abnormality history information, and predicted lifespan information for each of the plurality of machines in association with identification information of the machine;
- a condition acceptance unit configured to accept a search condition for specifying desired machine information;
- an information search unit configured to check the search condition accepted by the condition acceptance unit against the machine information stored in the information storage unit and extract identification information of a machine related to machine information satisfying the search condition;
- a display unit configured to display identification information extracted by the information search unit;
- a map generation unit configured to generate a map indicating an installation position of each of the plurality of machines and discriminably indicating an installation position of a machine with identification information extracted by the information search unit and an installation position of a machine with identification information not extracted by the information search unit, wherein the display unit displays the map generated by the map generation unit;
- a host computer provided with the information storage unit, the condition acceptance unit, the information search unit, and the map generation unit;
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- a mobile terminal being communicably connected to the host computer and being provided with the display unit and an input device for inputting the search condition, wherein:
- the search condition input through the input device is transmitted from the mobile terminal to the host computer and is accepted by the condition acceptance unit, and
- the map generated by the map generation unit is transmitted from the host computer to the mobile terminal and is displayed by the display unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.