US 2018/0019915 A1 · Defining Acquisition and Measurement Definitions in a Machine Monitoring System

Abstract

A machine monitoring system uses generically defined collection definitions, acquisition definitions, and measurement definitions to define machine data to be collected by machine monitoring devices and other data sources in a unified and device/source independent manner. Configuration software of the machine monitoring system defines data to be collected for a particular machine in such a manner that multiple different types of monitoring devices or data sources can each interpret the data definitions and provide the same type of data back to the software system. Thus, the data to be collected is defined once by the configuration software, and the data definition is interpreted internally by each monitoring device or data source. This greatly simplifies the monitoring system and provides the advantage that new monitoring devices can be added to the system to collect data without impacting the software configuration of the data required.

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Dependent claims

A machine monitoring system for monitoring operational characteristics of one or more machine assets, the machine monitoring system comprising:

a plurality of machine monitoring devices disposed in one or more measurement locations associated with the one or more machine assets, the plurality of machine monitoring devices comprising multiple different types of machine monitoring devices, each type of machine monitoring device having a data acquisition process that is different from data acquisition processes of other types of machine monitoring devices, wherein the data acquisition processes configure the machine monitoring devices to collect certain types of machine data according to certain measurement parameters;
a computer for sending, device-independent configuration settings to and receiving machine data from the plurality of machine monitoring devices, the computer operable to generate the configuration settings for use in the data acquisition processes of each of the multiple different types of machine monitoring devices, wherein the configuration settings are structured according to a hierarchal format that can be interpreted by all of the different types of machine monitoring devices for use in their data acquisition processes;
and
a database for storing the configuration settings for the plurality of machine monitoring devices.

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A method for monitoring operational characteristics of one or more machine assets using a machine monitoring system comprising multiple machine monitoring devices disposed in one or more measurement locations associated with the one or more machine assets and a computer for sending device-independent configuration settings to and receiving machine data from the machine monitoring devices, wherein the machine monitoring devices comprise multiple different types of machine monitoring devices, each type having a data acquisition process that is different from data acquisition processes of other types of machine monitoring devices, wherein the data acquisition processes configure the machine monitoring devices to collect specific types of machine data according to specified measurement parameters, the method comprising:

(a) inputting information at the computer to identify a machine asset and one or more measurement locations on the machine asset;
(b) inputting information at the computer to define machine data to be collected at the one or more measurement locations;
(c) generating device-independent configuration settings at the computer that are generically consumable by each of the multiple different types of machine monitoring devices, wherein the configuration settings are structured according to a hierarchal format that can be interpreted by all of the different types of machine monitoring devices to set up their data acquisition processes;
(d) the computer sending the configuration settings to the machine monitoring devices;
(e) the machine monitoring devices interpreting the configuration settings structured according to the hierarchal format to set up the machine monitoring devices to collect specified types of machine data according to specified measurement parameters;
(f) the machine monitoring devices collecting the machine data;
(g) the machine monitoring devices sending the collected machine data to the computer;
and
(h) the computer receiving and storing the collected machine data.

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A method for monitoring operational characteristics of one or more machine assets using a machine monitoring system comprising multiple machine monitoring devices disposed one or more measurement locations associated with the one or more machine assets and a computer for sending device-independent configuration settings to and receiving machine data from the machine monitoring devices, wherein the machine monitoring devices include at least a first machine monitoring device and a second machine monitoring device, and wherein the configuration settings are generically consumable by the machine monitoring devices to set up the machine monitoring devices to collect specified types of machine data according to specified measurement parameters, the method comprising:

(a) collecting machine data using the first machine monitoring device which is configured according to first configuration settings;
(b) receiving a command at the computer to obtain the first configuration settings from the first machine monitoring device;
(c) sending from the computer a request for the first configuration settings to the first machine monitoring device;
(d) receiving the request for the first configuration settings at the first machine monitoring device;
(e) sending the first configuration settings from the first machine monitoring device to the computer in response to the request;
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(f) receiving the first configuration settings at the computer and storing the first configuration settings in a database.

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Defining Acquisition and Measurement Definitions in a Machine Monitoring System

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Defining Acquisition and Measurement Definitions in a Machine Monitoring System

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