Maintenance management device for operating machinery

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10235658-B2
Application number	US-201314414282-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 10, 2013
Priority date	Jul 13, 2012
Publication date	Mar 19, 2019
Grant date	Mar 19, 2019

Abstract

The maintenance management device 3 includes an error status diagnosis unit 11 , a grace period estimation unit 14 , a maintenance cost estimation unit 15 , and a screen display unit 17 . When the error status diagnosis unit 11 has diagnosed the occurrence of an anomaly, the grace period estimation unit 14 estimates a first grace period leading up to the occurrence of a failure. The maintenance cost estimation unit 15 estimates the cost of corrective maintenance incurred when the failure occurs after the elapse of the first grace period. The screen display unit 17 displays a combination of the first grace period and the cost of corrective maintenance. Alternatively, the grace period estimation unit 14 estimates a second grace period over which preventive maintenance may be postponed without a failure.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A maintenance management device for operating machinery, the maintenance management device being located at a distance from the operating machinery and collecting sensor data therefrom, the maintenance management device comprising:
a case data storage unit which stores in advance a plurality of failure case data each including a respective time at which a respective past failure occurred, respective sensor data in use before the respective past failure occurred, a respective type of anomaly presaging the respective past failure, and information on a respective cost of corrective maintenance;
an error status diagnosis unit which diagnoses whether a current anomaly has occurred in the sensor data of the operating machinery;
a case data extraction unit which, when the error status diagnosis unit has diagnosed that the current anomaly has occurred, extracts the plurality of the failure case data which includes the type of the current anomaly;
a grace period estimation unit which, when the error status diagnosis unit has diagnosed that the current anomaly has occurred, estimates a plurality of first grace periods by acquiring, for each of the extracted failure case data, an occurrence time of a respective past anomaly by collating the sensor data in which the current anomaly occurred with the respective sensor data in use before the respective past failure occurred, and calculating a difference between the occurrence time of the respective past anomaly and the respective time at which the respective past failure occurred as the respective first grace period starting from an occurrence time of the current anomaly and leading up to occurrence of a failure of the operating machinery, and estimates a plurality of second grace periods over which preventive maintenance may be postponed without the failure of the operating machinery;
a maintenance cost estimation unit which estimates, for each of the first grace periods, the respective cost of corrective maintenance incurred when the respective first grace period has elapsed based on the information on the respective cost of the corrective maintenance included in the respective extracted failure case data, and estimates, for each of the second grace periods, a respective cost of preventive maintenance incurred when the respective second grace period has elapsed;
a risk map generation unit which generates a risk map having a coordinate system with a first coordinate axis representing grace period time and a second coordinate axis denoting cost, the risk map being divided into a plurality of zones, the risk map having a plurality of combinations of the first grace periods and the costs of corrective maintenance and a plurality of combinations of the second grace periods and the costs of preventive maintenance classified by the zones, and the risk map has one or more timing lines indicating predetermined scheduled maintenance of the operating machinery;
a screen display unit which displays the risk map;
a scheduled maintenance information storage unit storing scheduled maintenance information including intervals of scheduled maintenance predetermined for the operating machinery; and
an operation unit which receives an input to adjust at least one of the timing lines to establish timings of scheduled maintenance, and correspondingly update the intervals of scheduled maintenance stored in the scheduled maintenance information storage unit,
wherein the risk map is displayed by the screen display unit with the timing lines adjusted on the first coordinate axis.

2. The maintenance management device for operating machinery according to claim 1 , wherein, upon elapse of time since the time at which the current anomaly occurred until a present time, the grace period estimation unit calculates the first grace period starting from the present time on a basis of the first grace period starting from the occurrence time of the current anomaly.

3. The maintenance management unit for operating machinery according to claim 1 ,
wherein the case data storage unit further stores in advance a plurality of preventive maintenance case data each including a respective time at which a respective preventive maintenance was performed, respective sensor data in use before the respective preventive maintenance is carried out, and the respective type of the anomaly prompting the preventive maintenance,
wherein the case data extraction unit which, when the error status diagnosis unit has diagnosed that the current anomaly has occurred, extracts the plurality of preventive maintenance case data which includes the type of the current anomaly,
wherein the grace period estimation unit estimates the plurality of second grace periods by acquiring, for each of the extracted preventive maintenance case data, an occurrence time of a respective past anomaly by collating the sensor data in which the current anomaly occurred with the respective sensor data in use before the respective past preventive maintenance is carried out, and calculating a difference between the occurrence time of the respective past anomaly occurred and the respective time at which the respective past preventive maintenance was performed as the respective second grace period starting from the occurrence time of the current anomaly.

4. The maintenance management device for operating machinery according to claim 3 , wherein, upon the elapse of the time since the time at which the current anomaly occurred until the present time, the grace period estimation unit calculates the second grace period starting from the present time on a basis of the second grace period starting from the occurrence time of the current anomaly.

5. The maintenance management device for operating machinery according to claim 3 ,
wherein each of the preventive maintenance case data stored in the case data storage unit includes information on a cost of preventive maintenance,
wherein the maintenance cost estimation unit estimates, for each of the second grace periods, the respective cost of preventive maintenance based on the information on the cost of preventive maintenance included the respective extracted preventive maintenance case data.

6. The maintenance management device for operating machinery according to claim 1 , wherein the risk map includes a timing of scheduled maintenance.

Assignees

• Hitachi Construction Mach Co

Inventors

• Suzuki Hideaki
• Nakamura Kozo
• Yuda Shinya
• Unuma Munetoshi
• Fujiwara Junsuke
• Uchida Takayuki
• Tanaka Katsuaki
• Aihara Mitsuo
• Nakamura Teruo
• Hirowatari Nobuyoshi
• Ogura Hiroshi

Classifications

• G07C5/008

  communicating information to a remotely located station (transmission systems for measured values G08C) · CPC title

• G06Q50/10

  Services · CPC title

• E02F9/267

  Diagnosing or detecting failure of vehicles · CPC title

• E02F9/2054

  Fleet management · CPC title

• G07C5/0816

  Indicating performance data, e.g. occurrence of a malfunction · CPC title