Welding Resource Performance Comparison System and Method
AssigneeIllinois Tool Works Inc.
InventorsNathan John Lamers, Nathan Gerald Leiteritz, Knut Norman Froland, Todd Earl Holverson, Gregory David Popp
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Abstract
Metal fabrication systems, such as welding systems and related equipment may be analyzed and performance compared by collecting parameter data from the systems during welding operations via a web based system. The data is stored and analyzed upon request by a user. A user viewable page may be provided that allows for selection of systems and groups of systems of interest. Parameters to be used as the basis for comparison may also be selected. Pages illustrating the comparisons may be generated and transmitted to the user based upon the selections.
Claims20
A metal fabrication operator performance comparison method, comprising:
- via at least one computer processor, accessing data representative of a parameter of metal fabrication operations performed on a plurality of metal fabrication resources by a plurality of metal fabrication operators;
- via a user viewing device, presenting to a user a listing of the plurality of metal fabrication resources configured to allow for user selection of multiple of the plurality of operators for analysis;
- via the at least one computer processor, analyzing the parameter for each of the user selected operators to compare performance between the user selected operators;
- via the at least one computer processor, populating a user viewable report page with graphical indicia representative of the analysis of each of the user selected operators;
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- via the at least one computer processor, transmitting the user viewable report page to the user viewing device.
A metal fabrication operator performance comparison system, comprising:
- a communications component that in operation accesses data representative of a plurality of parameters sampled during metal fabrication operations performed on a plurality of metal fabrication resources by a plurality of metal fabrication operators and transmits a user viewable report page to a user viewing device;
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- at least one computer processor that in operation analyzes a user selected parameter of the plurality of parameters to compare performance between the plurality of operators, and populates the user viewable report page with graphical indicia representative of each of the analyses for each of the plurality of operators, wherein the user viewable report page includes indicia identifying the plurality of multiple operators, and wherein the analysis is performed and the report populated for multiple operators of the plurality of operators selected by the user via the identifying indicia.
A non-transitory tangible computer readable medium comprising executable instructions that when executed cause a processor to:
- access data representative of a parameter of metal fabrication operations performed on a plurality of metal fabrication resources by a plurality of metal fabrication operators;
- transmit a listing of the plurality of operators to a user viewing device;
- receive a user selection of multiple of the plurality of operators for analysis;
- analyze the parameter for each of the multiple user selected operators to compare performance between the multiple user selected operators;
- populate a user viewable report page with graphical indicia representative of the analysis of each of the user selected operators;
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- transmit the user viewable report page to the user viewing device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.