Systems and methods for limiting user customization of task workflow in a condition based health maintenance system

• US 8,832,716 B2
• Filed: 08/10/2012
• Issued: 09/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/10/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Original Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Inventors: Bishop, Douglas L., Dolak, Petr, Krupa, Miroslav, Bell, Douglas Allen, Felke, Tim
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Adam
• Application Number:
  US13/572,518
• Publication Number:
  US 20140047448A1
• Time in Patent Office: 760 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 719/318
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/542 Event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications

Abstract

Systems and methods are provided for customizing workflow in a condition based health maintenance (“CBM”) system computing node. The computerized method comprises identifying a first standardized executable application module (“SEAM”), wherein the first SEAM is configured to generate a first event associated with particular data being processed by the first SEAM and identifying a second SEAM, wherein the second SEAM is configured to generate a subsequent event associated with the particular data processed by the first SEAM. The computerized method further comprises creating a quasi-state machine associating a unique responses to the first event and associating a unique responses to the subsequent event, and installing the quasi-state machine into the SDS of the computing node from which the workflow service state machine retrieves the one or more unique responses from the quasi-state machine to the first event for processing by the second SEAM to produce the subsequent second event.

Claims

1. A computerized method for customizing task workflow in a condition based health maintenance (“

CBM”

) system computing node without recompiling software by using a data modeling tool program executing on a computer, the CBM computing node comprising a workflow service state machine and a static data store (“

SDS”

), the computerized method comprising;

identifying a first standardized executable application module (“

SEAM”

) from a plurality of available SEAMs, wherein the first SEAM is configured to generate a first event associated with particular data being processed by the first SEAM, and wherein a SEAM is a basic un-modifiable modular software object that is directed to complete a specific task;

identifying a second SEAM from the plurality of available SEAMs, wherein the second SEAM is configured to generate a subsequent second event associated with the particular data processed by the first SEAM;

identifying a third SEAM from the plurality of available SEAMs, wherein the third SEAM is configured to generate a subsequent third event associated with the particular data processed by the first SEAM and the second SEAM;

populating the CBM computing node with the first SEAM, the second SEAM, and the third SEAM;

creating a quasi-state machine associating multiple unique responses to the first event, associating multiple unique responses to the subsequent second event, and associating multiple unique responses to the subsequent third event; and

installing the quasi-state machine into the SDS of the computing node from which the workflow service state machine retrieves the multiple unique responses from the quasi-state machine to the first event for processing by the second SEAM to produce the subsequent second event, and retrieves the multiple unique responses from the quasi-state machine to the subsequent second event for processing by the third SEAM to produce the subsequent third event for which the workflow service state machine retrieves the multiple unique responses from the quasi-state machine, wherein the first SEAM, the second SEAM, and the third SEAM are always executed in a fixed order and the events generated by the first SEAM, second SEAM, and third SEAM are not alterable using the data modeling tool program.

2. The computerized method of claim 1, further comprising establishing an un-prioritized set of event queues, wherein those SEAMs of the plurality of SEAMs that process data from sources exterior to the CBM computing node each have a dedicated event queue associated with them.

3. The computerized method of claim 2, further comprising establishing a prioritized set of response queues, wherein the prioritized set of response queues comprise at least critical response queue and one or more lower priority response queues.

4. The computerized method of claim 3, wherein the prioritized set of response queues has a lower priority than all of the un-prioritized set of event queues

5. The computerized method of claim 3, wherein the one or more lower priority response queues comprise a high priority response queue, a time delay response queue, a periodic response queue and an asynchronous response queue.

6. The computerized method of claim 1, wherein an acquire SEAM, a decode SEAM, and an evaluate SEAM are the first SEAM, the second SEAM and the third SEAM, respectively.

7. The computerized method of claim 1, wherein an allocate SEAM, a rank SEAM, and a diagnose SEAM are the first SEAM, the second SEAM and the third SEAM, respectively.

8. The computerized method of claim 1, further including a fourth SEAM following the third SEAM in the fixed order.

9. The computerized method of claim 8, wherein the fourth SEAM is a record SEAM.

10. The computerized method of claim 8 wherein the fourth SEAM is a summarize SEAM.

11. The computerized method of claim 8, wherein the responses associated with events generated by the first SEAM, second SEAM, third SEAM and fourth SEAM, which are always executed in their established order, are placed in the critical response queue for processing.

12. The computerized method of claim 11, wherein responses placed into the critical response queue are executed in a first-in-first-out basis.

13. The computerized method of claim 8, wherein the responses associated with events generated by the first SEAM, second SEAM, third SEAM and fourth SEAM, which are always executed in their established order, are placed in a response queue other than the critical response queue critical response queue for processing.

14. A reconfigurable system for monitoring the health of a complex system comprising:

a plurality of standardized executable application modules (“

SEAM”

), each SEAM is a basic un-modifiable modular software object that is directed to complete a specific task; and

a computing node arranged in a hierarchical structure comprising one or more layers of the computing nodes, wherein the computing node includes;

a first SEAM, a second SEAM, and a third SEAM selected from the plurality of SEAMs, a workflow service state machine configured to control the execution of the first SEAM, wherein the first SEAM generates a first event associated with particular data being processed by the first SEAM and is configured to control the execution of the second SEAM, wherein the second SEAM generates a subsequent second event associated with the particular data processed by the first SEAM, and the third SEAM generates a subsequent third event associated with the particular data processed by the first SEAM and the second SEAM; and

a quasi-state machine, the quasi state machine configured to associate multiple unique responses to the first event, associate multiple unique responses to the subsequent second event, and associate multiple unique responses to the subsequent third event, wherein the quasi-state machine resides in a static memory of the computing node from which the workflow service state machine retrieves the multiple unique responses to the first event for processing by the second SEAM to produce the subsequent second event, retrieves the multiple unique responses to the subsequent second event for processing by the third SEAM to produce the subsequent third event for which the workflow service state machine retrieves the multiple unique responses from the quasi-state machine, and wherein the first SEAM, the second SEAM, and the third SEAM are always executed in a fixed order and the events generated by the first SEAM, second SEAM, and third SEAM are not alterable using a data modeling tool program.