Systems and methods for access of complex information and procedures for operations, maintenance, and troubleshooting of equipment
AssigneeDigital Mentor, Inc.
InventorsNancy C. Heuman, Scott Wenger
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Abstract
A method of allowing users to maintain equipment forming a facility comprises the following steps. A platform for storing and accessing data is provided. Graphical data representative of the equipment forming the facility is displayed. The platform is populated with user data. The user data is sorted and updated by relevance based on sensor outputs, context, chronology, and spatial relationships to determine whether the equipment forming the facility are operating within parameters associated with the user data.
Claims15
A method of allowing users to maintain equipment forming a facility comprising the steps of:
- providing a platform for storing and accessing data;
- providing at least one graphical display device for displaying graphical data representative of the facility and the equipment forming the facility;
- storing on the platform sensor data generated by sensor associated with the facility and the equipment forming the facility;
- allowing users to enter into the platform user data defining parameters associated with the processes and equipment that form an overall system associated with the facility, where the user data includes operations, maintenance, and troubleshooting data associated with individual pieces of equipment forming the facility, assets associated with the facility, and
- subsystems containing multiple pieces of equipment that work together within the overall system;
- controlling the platform to combine the sensor data with the user data based on context, chronology, and spatial relationships to generate state data communicating whether the overall system associated with the facility, the individual pieces of equipment forming the facility, and the subsystems forming the facility are operating within predefined parameters;
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- controlling the at least one graphical display device to display the state data to users.
A method of allowing users to maintain equipment forming a facility comprising the steps of:
- providing a platform for storing and accessing data;
- providing at least one graphical display device for displaying graphical data representative of the facility and the equipment forming the facility;
- storing on the platform sensor data generated by sensor associated with the facility and the equipment forming the facility;
- allowing users to enter into the platform user data defining parameters associated with the processes and equipment that form an overall system associated with the facility, where the user data includes operations, maintenance, and troubleshooting data associated with individual pieces of equipment forming the facility, assets associated with the facility, and
- subsystems containing multiple pieces of equipment that work together within the overall system;
- controlling the platform to generate predictive data predicting, based on the sensor data and the user data, whether future operation of the overall system associated with the facility, the individual pieces of equipment forming the facility, and the subsystems forming the facility are likely to operate within predefined parameters;
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- controlling the at least one graphical display device to display the predictive data to users.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.