Self sensing component interface system
AssigneeRockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
InventorsArun K. Guru, Aleksey Yegorov, Robert Harris Schmidt
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Abstract
The subject innovation provides for systems and methods to optimize control systems for networked industrial sensors or devices and methods for self sensing, communicating with, monitoring of, controlling and optimizing utilization of networked industrial sensors and related control systems primarily in an industrial automation environment. The invention provides self-sensing and communication with sensors, and integration of control methods and strategies with decision support and logistics systems, to optimize specifically defined operational and performance objectives.
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A system that facilitates self-sensing a device connected to a safety input in an industrial business operation, comprising:
- a compliance component configured to receive a signal from the device, wherein the signal relates to a test signal;
- a diagnostics and prognostics component configured to determine compliance of the device with the industrial business operation based on the signal;
- the compliance component is further configured to execute the industrial business operation at a reduced performance level in response to a determination by diagnostics and prognostics component that the device is not in compliance with the industrial business operation, wherein the device is not compliant due to degradation and the reduced performance level is selected to alter a predicted rate of degradation of the device to a rate that allows for the device to survive until a time at which the device can be replaced or repaired.
A method for self-sensing a device connected to a safety input in an industrial business operation, comprising:
- receiving a signal from a device, wherein the signal relates to a test signal;
- determining compliance of the device with the industrial business operation based on the Signal;
- executing the industrial business operation at a reduced performance level in response to a determination that the device is not in compliance with the industrial business operation, wherein the device is not compliant due to degradation and the reduced performance level is selected to alter a predicted rate of degradation of the device to a rate that allows for the device to survive until a time at which the device can be replaced or repaired.
A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer executable instructions that, in response to execution, cause at least one computing device to perform operations for self-sensing a device connected to a safety input in an industrial business operation, comprising:
- receiving a signal from the device, wherein the signal relates to a test signal;
- determining compliance of the device with the industrial business operation based on the signal;
- executing the industrial business operation at a reduced performance level in response to a determination that the device is not in compliance with the industrial business operation, wherein the device is not compliant due to degradation and the reduced performance level is selected to alter a predicted rate of degradation of the device to a rate that allows for the device to survive until a time at which the device can be replaced or repaired.
A system for self-sensing a device connected to a safety input in an industrial business operation, comprising:
- means for receiving a signal from a device, wherein the signal relates to a test signal;
- means for determining compliance of the device with the industrial business operation based on the signal;
- means for executing the industrial business operation at a reduced performance level in response to a determination that the device is not in compliance with the industrial business operation, wherein the device is not compliant due to degradation and the reduced performance level is selected to alter a predicted rate of degradation of the device to a rate that allows for the device to survive until a time at which the device can be replaced or repaired.
An industrial controller in an industrial business operation, comprising:
- a compliance component configured to receive an input from a device connected to a safety input, wherein the input relates to a test signal;
- a diagnostics and prognostics component configured to determine compliance of the device with the industrial business operation based on the input;
- the compliance component is further configured to execute the industrial business operation at a reduced performance level in response to a determination by diagnostics and prognostics component that the device is not in compliance with the industrial business operation, wherein the device is not compliant due to degradation and the reduced performance level is selected to alter a predicted rate of degradation of the device to a rate that allows for the device to survive until a time at which the device can be replaced or repaired.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.