US 2018/0121839 A1 · Method and System for Organizing and Storing Manufacturing Process Information

Abstract

A method and system for capturing, organizing, storing, and analyzing manufacturing process information, with storage and performance characteristics suitable for use in resource-constrained embedded devices. Process information is organized into extensible Channels, each of which captures information stored as extensible Events, each of which may include Metric, Category Value, Annotation, and System Fields. Shared Boundaries between Channels make it easier to organize, store, interrelate, analyze, and explore information. Channel Boundary Relationships (e.g., Coupling, Fragmenting, Projecting, and Aggregating) create shared Boundaries; and can create, or be combined to create, sets of Channels that share Boundaries (referred to as a Slice Set). Shared Boundaries and Channel Boundary Relationships facilitate rule-based traversal of Exploration Hierarchies constructed from Channels, Categories, and Metrics, which enable users to view, analyze, interpret, understand, and otherwise benefit from Metrics and other information while traversing groups of Categories.

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A method for organizing manufacturing process information for analysis in a way that reduces memory requirements and improves query performance, the method comprising the steps of:

capturing information from a manufacturing process;
organizing at least some of the captured information as a projection set, the projection set comprising:
a plurality of projecting source channels, each of the plurality of projecting source channels comprising at least one channel event having at least one category and at least one boundary;
and
a projecting base channel;
creating a new projecting base channel event from the captured information each time a value of a projecting source channel event category changes, wherein the projecting base channel contains information to recreate the plurality of projecting source channels and the information includes one or more accumulating metrics;
storing the identified projecting base channel events to a storage medium;
and
re-generating, as needed, the plurality of projecting source channels, including all projecting source channel event boundaries, from the stored projecting base channel events.

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