Monitor system

• US 9,613,329 B2
• Filed: 11/25/2015
• Issued: 04/04/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/27/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CKD Corporation
• Original Assignee: CKD Corporation
• Inventors: Kamioka, Yosuke
• Primary Examiner(s): TAYLOR, NATHAN SCOTT
• Application Number:
  US14/952,732
• Publication Number:
  US 20160078396A1
• Time in Patent Office: 496 Days
• Field of Search: 4554561-4563, 700121, 700100, 700111, 340679, 340517
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/418 Total factory control, i.e. centrally controlling a plurality of machines, e.g. direct or distributed numerical control [DNC], flexible manufacturing systems [FMS], integrated manufacturing systems [IMS] or computer integrated manufacturing [CIM]
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 23/02 Electric testing or monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 23/0208 characterized by the configuration of the monitoring system
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 23/0297 Reconfiguration of monitoring system, e.g. use of virtual sensors; change monitoring method as a response to monitoring results
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063114 Status monitoring or status determination for a person or group
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/04 Manufacturing
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 3/08 Registering or indicating the production of the machine either with or without registering working or idle time
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• 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

A monitor system for monitoring a status of one or more equipment includes a plurality of mobile terminals respectively operated by a plurality of operators. Each of the plurality of mobile terminals includes a communicator that receives status information with regard to the status of the equipment via a communication line; a display that displays, when the status according to the status information received from one of the mobile terminals indicates that the equipment requires a specified operation, information showing that the specified operation is required; and a territory setter that sets a territory in which one or more operations for the equipment to be performed by the operator of the each of the plurality of mobile terminals.

Claims

1. A monitor system for monitoring a status of one or more equipment, the monitor system comprising:

a plurality of mobile terminals respectively operated by a plurality of operators, wherein

each of the plurality of mobile terminals comprises;

a communicator that receives status information with regard to the status of the equipment via a communication line;

a display that displays, when the status according to the status information received from one of the mobile terminals indicates that the equipment requires a specified operation, information showing that the specified operation is required; and

a territory setter that sets a territory in which one or more operations for the equipment to be performed by the operator of the each of the plurality of mobile terminals,

when the specified operation is to be performed in the territory, the display displays the information showing that the specified operation is required in the territory,

the communicator establishes communication with another mobile terminal via the communication line,

when the operator of the each of the plurality of mobile terminals sets the territory, the communicator sends territory information representing the territory set by the operator to the other mobile terminal,

the each of the plurality of mobile terminals further comprises;

a territory identifier that determines whether there is an operation that does not belong to the territory of any of the operators, based on the territory information received from the other mobile terminal; and

a provisional territory setter that sets, when there is the operation that does not belong to the territory of any of the operators, a provisional territory in which the operation that does not belong to the territory of any of the operators is to be performed by the operator of the each of the plurality of mobile terminals, and

when the specified operation is to be performed in the provisional territory, the display displays the information showing that the specified operation is required in the provisional territory.

2. The monitor system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a territory setting canceller that excludes the specified operation from the one or more operations to be performed in the territory.

3. The monitor system according to claim 2, wherein

the communicator receives the status information with regard to the status of the equipment in the territory.

4. The monitor system according to claim 3, wherein

the display

does not display the information for the equipment that is not in the territory, or

displays the information showing that the specified operation is not required for the equipment that is not in the territory.

5. The monitor system according to claim 2, wherein

the display

does not display the information for the equipment that is not in the territory, or

displays the information showing that the specified operation is not required for the equipment that is not in the territory.

6. The monitor system according to claim 1, wherein

the communicator receives the status information with regard to the status of the equipment in the territory.

7. The monitor system according to claim 6, wherein

the display

does not display the information for the equipment that is not in the territory, or

displays the information showing that the specified operation is not required for the equipment that is not in the territory.

8. The monitor system according to claim 1, wherein

the display

does not display the information for the equipment that is not in the territory, or

displays the information showing that the specified operation is not required for the equipment that is not in the territory.