INFORMATION COLLECTING SYSTEM

• US 20160034473A1
• Filed: 10/21/2014
• Published: 02/04/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: smart-FOA Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: smart-FOA Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: OKU, Masaharu
• Application Number:
  US14/424,626
• Publication Number:
  US 20160034473A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/4183 characterised by data acquisition, e.g. workpiece identification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24575 using context
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/252 between a Database Management System and a front-end application
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/04 Manufacturing
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/02 Total factory control, e.g. smart factories, flexible manufacturing systems [FMS] or integrated manufacturing systems [IMS]
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/30 Computing systems specially adapted for manufacturing

Abstract

Provided is an information collecting system which can easily handle data without considering entities of the data even when data unknown to the information collecting system is generated or collection of the unknown data is requested. The information collecting system comprises a managing region 11 reserved on memory in association with a data generating device of job-site data 100 and storing the job-site data 100 outputted by the corresponding data generating device. Type information 320 of the job-site data 100 to be collected is stored, the management region 11 is specified in accordance with the type information 320, and the job-site data 100 stored in the specified management region 11 is collected.

Claims

1. An information collecting system connected to a data generating device generating job-site data via a network and collecting a desired type of the job-site data, comprising:

a dictionary storage block storing type information of the job-site data to be collected;

a job-site data managing region reserved on memory in association with the data generating device, identified by a tag, and storing the job-site data outputted by the corresponding data generating device;

an association storage block storing association between the type information and the tag; and

a collecting block specifying the tag according to the type information stored by the dictionary storage block and collecting the job-site data from the job-site data managing region identified by the specified tag.

2. The information collecting system according to claim 1, wherein the information collecting system is connected to a database storing supplementary information of the job-site data via the network,

the information collecting system further comprising a supplementary information managing region reserved on the memory in association with an attribute value of the supplementary information, identified by a tag, and storing the supplementary information having the corresponding attribute value,

wherein:

the dictionary storage block stores the type information of the job-site data and the type information of the supplementary information in association with each other;

the association storage block further stores the association between the type information of the supplementary information and the tag; and

the collecting block specifies the tag according to the type information of the supplementary information stored by the dictionary storage block and collects the supplementary information stored in the supplementary information managing region identified by the specified tag.

3. The information collecting system according to claim 2, further comprising an event generating block generating event information gathering the job-site data and the supplementary information collected by the collecting block into one dataset.

4. The information collecting system according to claim 1, wherein:

a plurality of pieces of job-site data is stored in the one job-site data managing region;

the collecting block has an information processing block generating job-site data of a type different from that of the plurality of pieces of job-site data on the basis of those pieces of job-site data stored in the one job-site data managing region in accordance with predetermined type information stored by the dictionary storage block; and

the collecting block collects the different type of job-site data generated by the information processing block in accordance with the predetermined type information.

5. The information collecting system according to claim 2, wherein:

the association storage block stores path information indicating whether the job-site data is to be collected after processing or without processing and the type information in association with each other; and

the generating block operates the information processing block in accordance with the path information.