INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT MANAGEMENT SERVER, INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20150121556A1
• Filed: 10/29/2014
• Published: 04/30/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
• Inventors: OKUBO, Tadashi, HASHIMOTO, Hiroshi, HASHIMOTO, Ayaka
• Granted Patent: US 9,703,975 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/32
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/0428 Safety, monitoring G05B19/0423 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database

Abstract

An individual area controller of an industrial equipment management system controls access to an individual area which is a storage area that is associated with an individual ID on a server, based on the individual ID. A group area controller controls access to a group area which is a storage area that is associated with a group ID on a server, based on the individual ID that belongs to the group ID. A copy restrictor restricts copying of equipment information about an industrial equipment that is stored in the group area to the individual area.

Claims

1. An industrial equipment management system, comprising:

an individual area controller configured to control access to an individual area which is a storage area that is associated with an individual ID on a server, based on the individual ID;

a group area controller configured to control access to a group area which is a storage area that is associated with a group ID on a server, based on the individual ID that belongs to the group ID; and

a copy restrictor configured to restrict copying of equipment information about an industrial equipment that is stored in the group area to the individual area.

2. The industrial equipment management system according to claim 1, further comprising a copy permitter configured to permit copying of equipment information that is stored in the individual area to the group area.

3. The industrial equipment management system according to claim 1, wherein the copying restrictor restricts copying of the setting information stored in a setting information storing area which is comprised in the group area and stores setting information about the industrial equipment to the individual area.

4. The industrial equipment management system according to claim 3, further comprising:

a generator configured to generate a setting information ID for identifying the setting information; and

a determiner configured to determine, based on the individual ID or the group ID, whether or not the generator is to generate the setting information ID.

5. The industrial equipment management system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a securer configured to secure the individual area on the server; and

an affiliation permitter configured to permit the individual ID to respectively belong to the group ID after the individual area is secured.

6. The industrial equipment management system according to claim 1, wherein the group area controller comprises an acquirer configured to acquire data that defines access authority between group IDs, and controls, based on the data, access to a group area associated with one group ID that is based on an individual ID belonging to another group ID.

7. The industrial equipment management system according to claim 1, wherein:

the group area controller comprises a transmitter configured to transmit the equipment information that is encrypted to an operating terminal; and

the operating terminal comprises a storage configured to store the encrypted equipment information, and a display controller configured to decrypt the stored equipment information and displays the decrypted equipment information.

8. The industrial equipment management system according to claim 7, wherein the copy restrictor restricts copying of the equipment information that is not encrypted to the storage of the operating terminal.

9. An industrial equipment management server, comprising:

an individual area controller configured to control access to an individual area which is a storage area that is associated with an individual ID on a server, based on the individual ID;

a group area controller configured to control access to a group area which is a storage area that is associated with a group ID on the server, based on the individual ID that belongs to the group ID; and

a copy restrictor configured to restrict copying of equipment information about an industrial equipment that is stored in the group area to the individual area.

10. An industrial equipment management method, comprising:

controlling access to an individual area which is a storage area that is associated with an individual ID on a server, based on the individual ID;

controlling access to a group area which is a storage area that is associated with a group ID on the server, based on the individual ID that belongs to the group ID; and

restricting copying of equipment information about an industrial equipment that is stored in the group area to the individual area.

11. Anon-transitory computer-readable information storage medium having stored thereon a program for causing a computer to:

control access to an individual area which is a storage area that is associated with an individual ID on a server, based on the individual ID;

control access to a group area which is a storage area that is associated with a group ID on a server, based on the individual ID that belongs to the group ID; and

restrict copying of equipment information about an industrial equipment that is stored in the group area to the individual area.

12. An industrial equipment management system, comprising:

individual area controlling means for controlling access to an individual area which is a storage area that is associated with an individual ID on a server, based on the individual ID;

group area controlling means for controlling access to a group area which is a storage area that is associated with a group ID on a server, based on the individual ID that belongs to the group ID; and

copy preventing means for preventing copying of equipment information about an industrial equipment that is stored in the group area to the individual area.