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US 12,705,124 B2Granted
System and method for marking substrates within improved line recovery time
AssigneeVideojet Technologies Inc.
InventorsRobert Weaver, John Folkers, Fred Susi, Robert Smith
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Abstract
A method includes operating a marking and coding device, classifying, by a classifying module, a fault condition based on one or more of received sensor data, printer self-test data, current operational data and historical device condition data; and determining autonomously a repair process recommendation.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- operating a current marking and coding device;
- determining a fault has occurred during operating of the current marking and coding device;
- in response to determining that the current marking and coding device is connected to a network, updating at least one of historical device condition data or at least one repair process recommendation of a number of repair process recommendations stored in the current marking and coding device based on data stored in a different device that is connected to the network;
- classifying a fault condition of the fault based on one or more of received sensor data, printer self-test data, current operational data and the historical device condition data;
- selecting a repair process recommendation of the number of repair process recommendations, in response to the classified fault condition and based on an estimated time to repair (ETR) the current marking and coding device using a self-repair recovery process relative to a line recovery time threshold (LRT threshold);
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- recommending, by at least one processor, as the repair process recommendation, the self-repair recovery process in response to the ETR being less than or equal to the LRT threshold.
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A system comprising:
- a current marking and coding device to execute a current job to mark or code a substrate;
- a processor;
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- a machine-readable medium having instructions executable by the processor to cause the processor to,
- determine a fault has occurred during execution of the current job;
- in response to a determination that the current marking and coding device is connected to a network, update at least one of historical device condition data or at least one repair process recommendation of a number of repair process recommendations stored in the current marking and coding device based on data stored in a different device that is connected to the network;
- classify a fault condition of the fault based on one or more of received sensor data, printer self-test data, current operational data and the historical device condition data;
- select a repair process recommendation of the number of repair process recommendations, in response to the classified fault condition and based on an estimated time to repair (ETR) the current marking and coding device using a self-repair recovery process relative to a line recovery time threshold (LRT threshold);
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- recommend as the repair process recommendation, the self-repair recovery process in response to the ETR being less than or equal to the LRT threshold.
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One or more non-transitory machine-readable media including instructions executable by a processor, the instructions comprising:
- instructions to determine a fault has occurred during operating of a current marking and coding device;
- instructions to, in response to a determination that the current marking and coding device is connected to a network, update at least one of historical device condition data or at least one repair process recommendation of a number of repair process recommendations stored in the current marking and coding device based on data stored in a different device that is connected to the network;
- instructions to classify a fault condition of the fault based on one or more of received sensor data, printer self-test data, current operational data and the historical device condition data;
- instructions to select a repair process recommendation of the number of repair process recommendations, in response to the classified fault condition and based on an estimated time to repair (ETR) the current marking and coding device using a self-repair recovery process relative to a line recovery time threshold (LRT threshold);
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- instructions to recommend as the repair process recommendation, the self-repair recovery process in response to the ETR being less than or equal to the LRT threshold.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.