Maintenance monitoring apparatus for automatic winder
AssigneeMurata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsIkuo Kitagawa, Hidenao Miyaji
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Abstract
A maintenance monitoring apparatus comprised of an information processing machine for making a maintenance working plan for an automatic winder in response to an input data, outputting it and at the same time displaying the state of progress and a portable operating unit for inputting in sequence to the information processing machine the content of work applied by the operator to the automatic winder in accordance with the aforesaid work plan.
Claims7
A data collection device for use with a plurality of winders, the winders including a plurality of winding units and a concentrated controller, the device comprising:
- central control means, operably connected to the concentrated controllers, for receiving, storing and transmitting data, the data including winding data from the winders, and
- remote control means, detected from, and in wireless communication with, the central control means, for receiving data from the central control means and for transmitting data obtained by visual inspection to the central control means,
- wherein the central control means is adapted to store the data obtained by visual inspection transmitted by the remote control means.
A method for monitoring a plurality of winders, the winders including a plurality of winding units and a concentrated controller, the method comprising the steps of:
- providing central control means, operably connected to the concentrated controllers, for receiving winding data from the winders,
- providing remote control means, in wireless communication with the central control means, for transmitting data to, and receiving data from, the central control means,
- receiving winding data from at least one concentrated controller,
- visually inspecting at least one of the winding units, and
- transmitting a result of the visual inspection to the central control means with the remote control means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.