US 2021/0034034 A1Published application

Event monitor coupled to a quality review system

AssigneeFisher-Rosemount Systems, Inc.

InventorsTodd A. Cook, Joshua B. Kidd, Marcus Shane Strangeway Orchard

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Abstract

A quality review system may be used to analyze the operation of manufacturing processes within a plant based on data collected by various data sources in the plant to automatically detect, store and display predetermined conditions within the process effecting the quality of the product produced by the plant. The quality review system includes a configuration application that enables a user to create one or more monitoring rules, a monitoring application that collects data from the process and that uses the monitoring rules during operation of the process to analyze the process data to detect one or more predetermined conditions within the process, and an external receiver that stores and/or uses the messages pertaining to the detected predetermined conditions.

Claims27

Dependent claims

A quality review system for use in reviewing the operation of a process, comprising:

a rules database that stores a plurality of rules, wherein each of the plurality of rules includes logic that identifies conditions associated with one or more exceptions within a process;
one or more data sources configured to collect process data within the process during operation of the process and to send the collected process data in one or more data messages;
an exception engine that processes the process data within one or more data messages from the data sources using the rules in the rules database to determine if an exception exists as defined by any of the plurality of rules based on the process data within the data messages, wherein the exception engine, upon identifying an exception based on one of the rules, creates an exception record for the determined exception and stores the exception record in an exception record database;
an event monitor communicatively connected to an external system and to the exception engine, wherein the event monitor is configured to detect conditions within the external system and to send external information regarding the conditions within the external system to the exception engine, and wherein the exception engine detects one or more further exceptions based on the external information from the event monitor and creates and stores one or more further exception records in the exception record database for the one or more further exceptions;
and
a review interface that enables a user to review the exceptions and the further exceptions as identified by the exception engine and as stored as the exception records and the further exception records in the exception record database.

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A monitoring system for use in monitoring the operation of a process, comprising:

a run-time monitoring application stored in a memory and adapted to be executed on a processor including;
a configuration storage that stores a configuration, the configuration including a plurality of rules, wherein each of the plurality of rules includes a logical definition that defines one or more predefined events to be detected within the process,
a communication interface adapted to be communicatively connected to receive a configuration including the plurality of rules, and adapted to be communicatively connected to an external data source to receive data messages from the external data source, and
a logic engine that operates during run-time of the process to process data within one or more data messages from the external data source using the plurality of rules to determine if a predetermined condition exists as defined by any of the plurality of rules, wherein the logic engine, upon identifying the existence of a predetermined condition as defined by one of the plurality of rules, creates a message identifying the predetermined condition and sends the message to an external receiver;
and
a configuration application stored in a memory and adapted to be executed on a processor to enable a user to create the configuration, including enabling the user to create each of the plurality of rules to be implemented in the logic engine and to provide the configuration to the run-time application via the communication interface.

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A method of monitoring a process, comprising:

enabling, via a computer processor based interface device, a user to create a monitoring application configuration by specifying a plurality of logic rules that define one or more predetermined conditions to be detected in the process;
providing a run-time monitoring application with the monitoring application configuration including the plurality of rules;
communicatively coupling the run-time monitoring application to the one or more data sources associated with the process, the run-time application adapted to execute on a processor during operation of the process;
receiving, at the run-time application, during operation of the process, data messages from the one or more data sources associated with the process;
processing, on a computer processor, the data within the data messages from the one or more data sources using the plurality of rules to determine if a predetermined condition exists as defined by any of the plurality of rules, and upon identifying the existence of a predetermined condition as defined by any of the plurality of rules, creating a message identifying the predetermined condition;
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sending the message identifying the predetermined condition to an external receiver.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/072,778Filed 16 Oct 2020
Priority: 18 Apr 2018
Published: 4 Feb 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification28 codes

G05B 19/406
Numerical control [NC], i.e. automatically operating machines, in particular machine tools, e.g. in a manufacturing environment, so as to…
G05B 19/042
Program control other than numerical control, i.e. in sequence controllers or logic controllers: using digital processors
G05B 19/0428
Using digital processors: safety, monitoring
G06F 9/44526
Dynamic linking or loading; Link editing at or after load time, e.g. Java class loading: plug-ins; Add-ons