Distributed weld monitoring system with job tracking
AssigneeIllinois Tool Works Inc.
InventorsLeland D. Falde, Stephen P. Ivkovich, Vincent N. Romano, Craig Jeffords
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Abstract
Systems and methods for distributed weld monitoring using jobs and job sessions are described. In some examples, a distributed monitoring system comprises a central monitoring station in communication with a user device and a local monitoring station. A user may use the user device to enter weld monitoring data that is subsequently received by the central monitoring station and stored in a central data repository. The central data repository may associate the weld monitoring data with welding data received from a welding device, as well as with a job session that is, in turn, associated with a job.
Claims20
A welding system, comprising:
- a first local monitoring station in communication with one or more first welding devices, the first local monitoring station being configured to receive first welding data from a first welding device of the one or more first welding devices;
- a second local monitoring station in communication with one or more second welding devices, the second local monitoring station being configured to receive second welding data from a second welding device of the one or more second welding devices;
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- a central monitoring station in communication with the first local monitoring station and the second monitoring station, and configured to receive the first welding data from the first local monitoring station and receive the second welding data from the second local monitoring station.
A welding system, comprising:
- a data repository configured to store:
- welding data associated with a welding device identifier of a welding device to which the welding data pertains,
- a job session association between a job session identifier of a job session and the welding data or the welding device identifier,
- a time association between the job session identifier and a timestamp representative of a time the job session occurred,
- an activity association between the job session identifier and activity data pertaining to an activity that occurred during the job session, and
- a user association between the job session identifier and a user identifier of a user who performed the activity;
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- a central monitoring station in communication with a local monitoring station, the central monitoring station being configured to receive the welding data from the local monitoring station, or provide the welding data to the data repository.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.