System for diagnosing facility apparatus, managing apparatus and diagnostic apparatus

• US 20060116836A1
• Filed: 01/12/2006
• Published: 06/01/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/04/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Asahi Kasei Engineering Corporation (Asahi Kasei Corporation), Osamu Yoshie
• Original Assignee: Asahi Kasei Engineering Corporation (Asahi Kasei Corporation), Osamu Yoshie
• Inventors: Sato, Nobuyoshi, Fukunaga, Tatsuya, Yoshie, Osamu
• Granted Patent: US 7,143,011 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/85
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2223/06 Remote monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 23/0229 knowledge based, e.g. expert systems; genetic algorithms

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system for managing and diagnosing a state of a facility apparatus, and an object thereof is to provide a system for diagnosing the facility apparatus wherein, if information falling under a level of abnormality is extracted from gathered information on an operating state of the facility apparatus, an advanced analysis and diagnosis section on a facility diagnosis center side performs an advanced analysis and diagnosis process and promptly notifies a user side of the information on the best way of dealing with the facility apparatus determined to be abnormal, and further uploads a facility management data analysis program from the advanced analysis and diagnosis section to a facility monitoring section on the user side so that raw information of a large information amount can be analyzed on the user side without sending it to the facility diagnosis center side.

A facility management data processing section (3a) signal-processes facility state detecting information detected by facility state detectors (2a, 2b) mounted on a facility apparatus (1), a facility state determining section (4) determines a level of the signal-processed information comparing with a management reference value and outputs it, the facility monitoring section (5) gathers and processes the information related to the level-determined facility apparatus (1) and sends it to the advanced analysis and diagnosis section (6) via a communication network (10), and the advanced analysis and diagnosis section (6) performs an advanced analysis of the information and identifies a cause of the abnormality of the facility apparatus (1) concerned and improvement measures thereof to send the identified results to the facility monitoring section (5). In addition, it is characterized in that the facility management data analysis program is uploaded from the advanced analysis and diagnosis section (6) to the facility monitoring section (5) so that the advanced analysis can be performed on the user side B.

Claims

1-16. -16. (canceled)

17. A facility apparatus diagnostic apparatus characterized by performing an advanced analysis of information on a facility apparatus outputted from an external apparatus for gathering and processing the information on a state of a facility apparatus, and identifying a cause of an abnormality of the facility apparatus and improvement measures thereof to send the identified results to said external apparatus.

18. The facility apparatus diagnostic apparatus according to claim 17, characterized by being constituted to be capable of mutual communication with said external apparatus via a communication network and uploading a facility management data analysis program to said external apparatus.

19. The facility apparatus diagnostic apparatus according to claim 18, characterized by diagnosing a facility apparatus based on the information outputted from said external apparatus, extracting a predetermined facility management data analysis program from a facility management data analysis program group provided inside and rendering it as an electronic file so as to upload the electronic file to said external apparatus via said communication network.

20. The facility apparatus diagnostic apparatus according to claim 18, characterized by repeating the steps in which the facility management data analysis program is uploaded to said external apparatus, said external apparatus performs a predetermined process by using the uploaded facility management data analysis program and produces output, an advanced analysis of the information outputted from the external apparatus is performed and a cause of an abnormality of the facility apparatus concerned and improvement measures thereof are identified to send the identified results to said external apparatus and also upload the facility management data analysis program to the external apparatus.

21. The facility apparatus diagnostic apparatus according to any one of claims 17 to 20, characterized by being connected to said facility monitoring section by a network, the Internet or a public circuit.