Industrial asset event chronology

• US 9,547,695 B2
• Filed: 03/13/2013
• Issued: 01/17/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Energy Limited (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: ABB Research Ltd. (ABB Limited)
• Inventors: Mahate, Shakeel Mahamood, Smiley, Karen J., Wood, Paul F.
• Primary Examiner(s): GEBRESENBET, DINKU W
• Application Number:
  US13/800,926
• Publication Number:
  US 20140279948A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,406 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24578 using ranking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are provided for developing a timeline chronicling events pertaining to an industrial asset. Data is received from a plurality of assets, processed (e.g., to reduce duplicative and/or redundant data), and organized chronologically for presentation in a timeline. The data is further grouped and/or prioritized to display some portions of the data more prominently relative to other portions of the data in the timeline (e.g., which may be hidden). Grouping rules and/or prioritization rules for grouping and/or prioritizing the data may be a function of user interaction with the timeline and/or a function of a machine learning algorithm which may be configured to identify patterns in how users interact with the timeline based upon, among other things, a role the user plays relative to the industrial asset and/or an operating state of the industrial asset.

Claims

1. A method for chronicling events pertaining to an industrial asset, comprising:

receiving data pertaining to an industrial asset from a plurality of sources;

organizing the data chronologically, the organizing comprising altering first date information associated with a first portion of the data to standardize the first date information with second date information associated with a second portion of the data in response to the first date information having a different format than the second date information;

grouping the data into a first set of bins, where a first bin of the first set of bins represents first data yielded from a first source of the plurality of sources and a second bin of the first set of bins represents second data yielded from a second source of the plurality of sources;

creating a prioritization rule used to prioritize data for presentation within a timeline for the industrial asset;

training the prioritization rule based upon a user previously interacting, on a previous timeline for the industrial asset, with a first type of data to a greater extent than a second type of data where the first type of data corresponds to the first data and the second type of data corresponds to the second data;

prioritizing the data using the prioritization rule, the first data prioritized higher than the second data; and

providing for presentation of the timeline of the data in a first manner to chronicle events pertaining to the industrial asset, where the first data is displayed more prominently in the timeline than the second data based upon the first data being prioritized higher than the second data.

2. The method of claim 1, the prioritizing comprising:

prioritizing the first data higher than the second data based upon a first nature of the first data being more related to a present operating state of the industrial asset relative to a second nature of the second data.

3. The method of claim 1, comprising:

condensing the data to reduce an amount of duplicate data.

4. The method of claim 1, the grouping comprising:

grouping the data into the first set of bins according to an asset-type specific set of rules.

5. The method of claim 1, the grouping comprising:

grouping the data into the first set of bins based upon user input.

6. The method of claim 1, the grouping comprising:

grouping the data into the first set of bins based upon a present operating state of the industrial asset.

7. The method of claim 1, comprising:

regrouping the data into a second set of bins to facilitate presentation of the timeline in a second manner.

8. The method of claim 1, the prioritizing comprising:

prioritizing the first data higher than the second data based upon a first nature of the first data being more related to a present operating state of the industrial asset relative to a second nature of the second data, the present operating state corresponding to either a normal operating state or an abnormal operating state.

9. The method of claim 1, the prioritizing comprising:

prioritizing the first portion of the data higher than the second portion of the data, the first portion of the data more temporally proximate to an event of interest relative to the second portion of the data.

10. The method of claim 1, the providing for presentation of the timeline:

displaying the first data through the timeline; and

hiding the second data within the timeline.

11. The method of claim 10, comprising:

responsive to receiving input indicative of a selection of a portion of the timeline associated with the second data, displaying the second data.

12. The method of claim 1, comprising:

receiving input indicative of a selection of a portion of the timeline, the selected portion of the timeline corresponding to selected data; and

providing for presentation of the timeline in a second manner, the second manner presenting the selected data differently than the first manner.

13. The method of claim 1, comprising:

maintaining a record of how one or more users previously interacted with the previous timeline;

utilizing the record to predict how users with a first role will interact with the timeline; and

utilizing the record to predict how users with a second role will interact with the timeline.

14. A system for chronicling events pertaining to an industrial asset, comprising:

one or more processing units; and

memory configured to store instructions that when executed by at least some of the one or more processing units perform a method, comprising;

receiving data pertaining to an industrial asset from a plurality of sources;

organizing the data chronologically, the organizing comprising altering first date information associated with a first portion of the data to standardize the first date information with second date information associated with a second portion of the data in response to the first date information having a different format than the second date information;

grouping the data into a first set of bins, where a first bin of the first set of bins represents first data yielded from a first source of the plurality of sources and a second bin of the first set of bins represents second data yielded from a second source of the plurality of sources;

creating a prioritization rule used to prioritize data for presentation within a timeline for the industrial asset;

training the prioritization rule based upon a user previously interacting, on a previous timeline for the industrial asset, with a first type of data to a greater extent than a second type of data where the first type of data corresponds to the first data and the second type of data corresponds to the second data;

prioritizing the data using the prioritization rule, the first data prioritized higher than the second data; and

providing for presentation of the timeline of the data in a first manner to chronicle events pertaining to the industrial asset, where the first data is displayed more prominently in the timeline than the second data based upon the first data being prioritized higher than the second data.

15. The system of claim 14, the prioritizing comprising:

prioritizing the data as a function of a role of a user to whom the timeline is to be presented relative to the industrial asset.

16. The system of claim 14, the method comprising:

developing a set of prioritization rules as a function of past user interaction with the previous timeline.

17. The system of claim 14, the method comprising:

developing a set of prioritization rules as a function of a present operating state of the industrial asset.

18. The system of claim 14, the timeline representing numerical data and multimedia data.

19. The system of claim 14, the method comprising:

condensing the data to

reduce an occurrence of redundant data associated with a frequently occurring event.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions for performing a method for chronicling events pertaining to an industrial asset, the method comprising:

receiving data pertaining to an industrial asset from a plurality of sources;

organizing the data chronologically, the organizing comprising altering first date information associated with a first portion of the data to standardize the first date information with second date information associated with a second portion of the data in response to the first date information having a different format than the second date information;

grouping the data into a first set of bins, where a first bin of the first set of bins represents first data yielded from a first source of the plurality of sources and a second bin of the first set of bins represents second data yielded from a second source of the plurality of sources;

creating a prioritization rule used to prioritize data for presentation within a timeline for the industrial asset;

training the prioritization rule based upon a user previously interacting, on a previous timeline for the industrial asset, with a first type of data to a greater extent than a second type of data where the first type of data corresponds to the first data and the second type of data corresponds to the second data;

prioritizing the data using the prioritization, the first data prioritized higher than the second data; and

providing for presentation of the timeline of the data in a first manner to chronicle events pertaining to the industrial asset, where the first data is displayed more prominently in the timeline than the second data based upon the first data being prioritized higher than the second data.