Welding resource tracking and analysis system and method
AssigneeIllinois Tool Works Inc.
InventorsNathan John Lamers, Nathan Gerald Leiteritz, Todd Earl Holverson, Michael Anthony Gill
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Abstract
Metal fabrication systems, such as welding systems and related equipment may be monitored and parameters sensed or calculated during metal fabrication operations. The parameter values are stored and transmitted to a web based analysis system. Sampled values of the parameters are used to generate graphical presentations that are used to populate user viewable pages. The pages may be configured by users, and systems and parameters of interest selected.
Claims20
A metal fabrication resource performance tracking method, comprising:
- accessing data representative of a parameter sampled during a metal fabrication operation of a metal fabrication resource via a web-based system remote from the metal fabrication resources;
- via at least one computer processor, generating a graphical trace of the parameter;
- via the at least one computer processor, populating a user viewable report page with graphical indicia representative of the trace;
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- transmitting the user viewable report page to a user.
A metal fabrication resource performance tracking system, comprising:
- a web-based communications component that in operation accesses data representative of a parameter sampled during a metal fabrication operation of a metal fabrication resource remote from the communications component;
- at least one computer processor that in operation generates a graphical trace of the accessed parameter, and populates a user viewable report page with graphical indicia representative of the trace;
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- a web based transmission component that in operation transits the user viewable report page to a user.
A metal fabrication resource performance monitoring interface, comprising:
- at least one user viewable report page defined by computer executed code transmitted to a user viewing device via a web based component, the report page comprising user viewable indicia identifying at least one metal fabrication resource, a time period of interest, and at least one graphical trace of a sampled parameter of a metal fabrication operation performed on a metal fabrication resource of interest against time during the metal fabrication operation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.