Risk management system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12094341-B2
Application number	US-202118016474-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 27, 2021
Priority date	Jul 28, 2020
Publication date	Sep 17, 2024
Grant date	Sep 17, 2024

Abstract

The present invention intends to provide a risk management system that can accurately extract information necessary for analysis of a variety of accidents in which a machine is involved. For this purpose, a controller calculates a main risk that is the degree at which a main factor of an accident contributes to the occurrence of the accident on the basis of an evaluation value of the main factor, and calculates a subsidiary risk that is the degree at which a subsidiary factor of the accident contributes to the occurrence of the accident on the basis of an evaluation value of the subsidiary factor. Furthermore, the controller calculates, as the occurrence risk of the accident, an integrated risk that has a value equal to or larger than the main risk and increases or decreases at a degree lower than the degree of increase or decrease in the subsidiary risk, and, when the integrated risk has exceeded a predetermined threshold, causes a recording device to record parameters measured by measuring devices in a certain time period including a clock time at which the integrated risk has exceeded the predetermined threshold.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A risk management system including
measuring devices that measure parameters that represent a state of a machine and information on surroundings of the machine,
a controller that calculates an occurrence risk of an accident in which the machine is involved on a basis of the parameters measured by the measuring devices, and
a recording device capable of recording the parameters measured by the measuring devices, wherein
the controller is configured to
calculate evaluation values of a main factor and a subsidiary factor of the accident on a basis of the parameters measured by the measuring devices,
calculate a main risk that is a degree at which the main factor contributes to occurrence of the accident on a basis of an evaluation value of the main factor,
calculate a subsidiary risk that is a degree at which the subsidiary factor contributes to occurrence of the accident on a basis of an evaluation value of the subsidiary factor,
calculate, as the occurrence risk, an integrated risk that has a value equal to or larger than the main risk and increases or decreases at a degree lower than a degree of increase or decrease in the subsidiary risk, and
in a case where the integrated risk has exceeded a predetermined threshold, cause the recording device to record parameters measured by the measuring devices in a certain time period including a clock time at which the integrated risk has exceeded the predetermined threshold.

2. The risk management system according to claim 1 , wherein
the controller is configured to, in a case where the integrated risk has exceeded the predetermined threshold, cause the recording device to record information representing a type of the accident and parameters used for calculation of the evaluation value of the main factor or the subsidiary factor, the information and the parameters having been measured by the measuring devices in a certain time period including a clock time at which the integrated risk has exceeded the predetermined threshold.

3. The risk management system according to claim 1 , wherein
the risk management system includes an operation room warning device that is mounted in an operation room of the machine and outputs a warning in response to an instruction from the controller, and
the controller instructs the operation room warning device to output the warning in a case where the integrated risk has exceeded the predetermined threshold.

4. The risk management system according to claim 1 , wherein
the risk management system includes a surroundings warning device that is mounted on the machine and is capable of outputting a warning in response to an instruction from the controller, and
the controller instructs the surroundings warning device to output the warning in a case where the integrated risk has exceeded the predetermined threshold.

5. The risk management system according to claim 1 , wherein
the main factor is a factor can be evaluated directly or analytically by parameters measured by the measuring devices, and
the subsidiary factor is a factor that cannot be evaluated directly or analytically by parameters measured by the measuring devices.

6. The risk management system according to claim 1 , wherein
the machine is a construction machine,
an overturning accident of the construction machine is included in the accident, and
a weather condition in the surroundings of the machine is included in the information on the surroundings of the machine.

7. The risk management system according to claim 1 , wherein
the controller is configured to, on a basis of a type of the accident, a factor involved in occurrence of the accident, a factor evaluation parameter that is part of the parameters measured by the measuring devices and is for evaluating the factor, and classification of whether the factor is the main factor or the subsidiary factor, calculate the evaluation value of the main factor by using the factor evaluation parameter corresponding to the factor in a case where the factor is classified as the main factor, and calculate the evaluation value of the subsidiary factor by using the factor evaluation parameter corresponding to the factor in a case where the factor is classified as the subsidiary factor.

Assignees

• Hitachi Construction Mach Co

Inventors

• Kanazawa Akira
• Yamada Hiroyuki
• Izumi Shiho
• Imura Shinya
• Mizuochi Mariko

Classifications

• G06Q10/0635

  Risk analysis of enterprise or organisation activities · CPC title

• G08B21/182

  Level alarms, e.g. alarms responsive to variables exceeding a threshold · CPC title

• G05B23/0272

  Presentation of monitored results, e.g. selection of status reports to be displayed; Filtering information to the user · CPC title

• G05B23/027

  Alarm generation, e.g. communication protocol; Forms of alarm · CPC title

• E02F3/435

  for dipper-arms, backhoes or the like · CPC title