Plant diagnosis support system and plant diagnosis support method

• US 20060095231A1
• Filed: 10/24/2005
• Published: 05/04/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/01/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Kubota, Mitsuru, Okazaki, Mitsuyoshi, Watanabe, Shunzo, Suzuki, Kazumichi
• Application Number:
  US11/256,054
• Publication Number:
  US 20060095231A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/183
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 23/0267 Fault communication, e.g. human machine interface [HMI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

A plant diagnosis support system includes at least one of facilities provided on a plant company side, at least one of operation data collecting devices collecting, processing, and storing operation data of the plant facility, and a plant supervision server configured to receive the operation data stored in the operation data collecting device through a locally closed communication network and to transmit/receive data to/from a diagnosis support service computer to remotely support diagnosis of the plant facility, connected through an external communication line, wherein the plant supervision server has a graph display function of performing display in the same display format as in the operation data collecting device.

Claims

1. A plant diagnosis support system comprising:

at least one of operation data collecting devices collecting, processing, and storing operation data including high-speed data and process data, of a plant facility; and

a plant supervision server configured to receive the operation data stored in the operation data collecting device through a locally closed communication network and to transmit/receive data to/from a diagnosis support service computer to remotely support diagnosis of the plant facility, connected through an external communication line,

wherein said plant supervision server has an element for performing display in a same display format as in the operation data collecting device.

2. The plant diagnosis support system according to claim 1, wherein said diagnosis support service computer has an element for performing display in the same display format as in the plant supervision server.

3. The plant diagnosis support system according to claim 1, wherein said plant supervision server is configured to store electronic data received from the operation data collecting device in a common data format so as to display in the same display format.

4. The plant diagnosis support system according to claim 1, wherein said plant supervision server is provided on a plant company side and is composed of only one computer allowed to transmit/receive data to/from a diagnosis support service computer, of all computers thereon.

5. The plant diagnosis support system according to claim 1, wherein said operation data collecting device includes at least one of a high-speed data collecting unit collecting high-speed data and a process data collecting unit collecting process data.

6. The plant diagnosis support system according to claim 5, wherein said high-speed data collecting unit, plant supervision server and diagnosis support service computer are respectively configured to display the graph related to high-speed data in the common display format.

7. The plant diagnosis support system according to claim 5, wherein said process data collecting unit, plant supervision server and diagnosis support service computer are respectively configured to display the graph related to process data in the common display format.

8. The plant diagnosis support system according to claim 5, wherein said high-speed data collecting device is configured to store the high-speed data including at least one of vibration data and of signal waveform data.

9. The plant diagnosis support system according to claim 5, wherein said high-speed data collecting device is configured to store the high-speed data including at least one of vibration data of a rotating machine and data of a voltage waveform and a current waveform of output from a generator.

10. The plant diagnosis support system according to claim 5, wherein said high-speed data collecting device is configured to store the high-speed data by categorizing the data into items including at least one of change in vibration amplitude, correlation between amplitude and phase of a frequency component obtained by spectrum analysis and frequency analysis of a vibration signal, correlation between the frequency and amplitude/phase, and a transient waveform variation.

11. The plant diagnosis support system according to claim 5, wherein said high-speed data collecting device is configured to store the high-speed data by categorizing the data into items including at least any of change in vibration amplitude, correlation between amplitude and phase of a rotational frequency component obtained by spectrum analysis and frequency analysis of a vibration signal, correlation between the rotating speed and amplitude/phase, and a transient waveform variation.

12. The plant diagnosis support system according to claim 1, wherein said plant supervision server is configured to transmit an access right including user ID and temporary password for accessing a website from which a user having the access right is allowed to download plant diagnosis data to diagnosis support service computer.

13. The plant diagnosis support system according to claim 12, wherein said plant supervision server is configured to allow to download the plant diagnosis data from the website in the event that the plant supervision server receives information of correct access right.

14. A plant diagnosis support method comprising the steps of:

receiving an access right to access a website from which a user having the access right is allowed to browse and download plant diagnosis data from a plant company side through a communication network upon receiving a plant diagnosis request from the plant company side;

accessing the plant company side by using the access right received in the access right reception step, selecting data required for plant diagnosis from the website to which the plant diagnosis data is uploaded, and downloading the selected data; and

transmitting a diagnosis result generated on the basis of the plant diagnosis data downloaded in the plant diagnosis data download step to the plant company side.

15. The plant diagnosis support method according to claim 14, wherein said plant diagnosis data and diagnosis result are displayed, in the common display format between the plant company side and the diagnosis support service provider side, on a monitor provided on each of the plant company side and the diagnosis support service provider side.

16. A plant diagnosis support method comprising the steps of:

uploading plant diagnosis data to a website set up by a plant company side; and

transmitting an access right for accessing the website from which a user having the access right is allowed to browse and download plant diagnosis data upon completion of receiving a notice of acceptance for diagnosis request transmitted from a diagnosis service provider side.

17. The plant diagnosis support method according to claim 16, wherein said plant diagnosis data and diagnosis result are displayed, in the common display format between the plant company side and the diagnosis support service provider side, on a monitor provided on each of the plant company side and the diagnosis support service provider side.