Remote maintenance system
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsNobuaki Ogushi, Hirohisa Ohta, Yoshito Yoneyama, Masaya Ogura
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Abstract
Factories (102-104) have host computers (107) for monitoring industrial equipment (106). Each host computer (107) is connected to a management host computer (108) on a vendor (101) side through the internet (105). The host computer (107) on the factory side detects occurrence of a trouble of the industrial equipment (106) and notifies the vendor side of status information representing a trouble state. In response to this, the host computer (108) on the vendor side notifies the factory side of response information representing a countermeasure against the trouble state.
Claims2
A remote maintenance system for maintaining an industrial equipment installed at a remote location, comprising:
- monitor means for monitoring an operating state of one or a plurality of industrial equipments;
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- management means for managing maintenance of the industrial equipment while communicating information associated with maintenance of the industrial equipment with said monitor means through the internet.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.