Industrial data analytics in a cloud platform

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9438648-B2
Application number	US-201314087873-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 22, 2013
Priority date	May 9, 2013
Publication date	Sep 6, 2016
Grant date	Sep 6, 2016

Abstract

Cloud-aware industrial devices feed robust sets of data to a cloud-based data analyzer that executes as a service in a cloud platform. In addition to industrial data generated or collected by the industrial devices, the devices can provide device profile information to the cloud-based analyzer that identifies the device and relevant configuration information. The industrial devices can also provide customer data identifying an owner of the industrial devices, contact information for the owner, active service contracts, etc. The cloud-based data analyzer leverages this information to perform a variety of custom analytics on the data and generate reports or notifications catered to the particular industrial assets' optimal performance and business goals of the owner's industrial enterprise, as well as perform real-time decision making and control.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system for processing industrial data, comprising:
a memory that stores executable components;
a processor, operatively coupled to the memory, that executes executable components, the executable components comprising:
a device interface component configured to receive data from an industrial device and store the data on cloud storage, wherein the data comprises at least process data relating to an industrial process appended with device data identifying the industrial device and customer data comprising a customer identifier of an industrial enterprise from which the data is received;
an analysis component configured to perform a collective analysis on the data and aggregated data stored on the cloud storage in association with one or more other customer identifiers, and identify at least one of a predicted performance issue of the industrial device or a configuration modification for improving performance of the industrial device based on a result of the collective analysis; and
a communication component configured to send notification data identifying at least one of the predicted performance issue or the configuration modification to a client device via the cloud platform.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the device data comprises at least one of a device identifier of the industrial device, a firmware revision identifier, a software code identifier, an operating system identifier, a configuration parameter setting for the industrial device, a status indicator for the industrial device, or a role identifier that identifies a role of the industrial device in the industrial process.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the customer data further comprises at least one of contact information for one or more employees of the industrial enterprise, an industry identifier for the industrial enterprise, schedule data indicating a schedule for receipt or delivery of parts or ingredients involved in an industrial process, ingredient identification data indicating one or more ingredients used in the industrial process, or service contract data defining a service agreement between the industrial enterprise and a service provider.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the analysis component is further configured to reference a product resource data store on the cloud platform to determine whether at least one of a hardware upgrade or a software upgrade is available for the industrial device based on the device data, and the communication component is further configured to send upgrade notification data to the client device in response to determining that at least one of the hardware upgrade or the software upgrade is available.

5. The system of claim 4 , wherein the analysis component is further configured to identify a service agreement between the industrial enterprise and a service provider based on the customer data, and to generate the upgrade notification data based on the service agreement.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the device interface component is further configured to store the industrial data on the cloud platform in association with the customer identifier.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the device interface component is further configured to collect multi-enterprise data from multiple industrial enterprises associated with respective different customer identifiers and store the multi-enterprise data as the aggregated data, and wherein the collective analysis comprises a correlation of the industrial data associated with the customer identifier with at least a subset of the multi-enterprise data corresponding to the one or more other customer identifiers.

8. The system of claim 7 , wherein the analysis component is further configured to perform the collective analysis based on another correlation of the industrial data with extrinsic data collected from one or more sources that are external to the industrial enterprise.

9. The system of claim 7 , wherein the analysis component comprises:
an industry filter configured to identify a subset of the multi-enterprise data corresponding to an industry defined by the customer model to yield industry-specific data;
an application filter configured to identify a subset of the industry-specific data associated with a type of industrial application to yield application-specific data; and
a grouping component configured to segregate the application-specific data according to at least one of device models of devices that generated the application-specific data, configuration settings of the devices that generated the application-specific data, firmware versions of the devices that generated the application-specific data, or software code executed on the devices that generated the application-specific data to yield configuration-specific data groups,
wherein the analysis component is configured to generate the notification data based on a result of comparative analysis performed across the configuration-specific data groups.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein the communication component is further configured to send output data to the client device based on another result of the collective analysis, the output data comprising at least one of device compatibility data, risk assessment data, report data identifying comparative performance metrics for different device configurations represented by the respective configuration-specific groups, or asset configuration recommendation data.

11. The system of claim 1 , wherein the device data further comprises information identifying one or more other devices communicatively connected to the industrial device and a hierarchical relationship between the industrial device and the one or more other devices.

12. A method for analyzing industrial data, comprising:
receiving, at a cloud platform by a system comprising at least one processor, data from an industrial device, wherein the data comprises at least process data relating to an industrial process controlled at least in part by the industrial device appended with device profile data identifying the industrial device and customer profile data comprising a customer identifier associated with an industrial enterprise;
aggregating, by the system, the data on cloud storage with other data associated with other customer identifiers to yield aggregated data;
analyzing, by the system, the aggregated data based on a customer model associated with the customer identifier;
identifying, by the system, at least one of a predicted performance issue of the industrial device or a configuration modification for improving a performance metric of the industrial process based on a result of the analyzing; and
in response to the determining, sending, by the system, output data to a client device via the cloud platform, the output data identifying at least one of the predicted performance issue or the configuration modification.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the receiving comprises receiving, as the device profile data, the device identifier and at least one of a firmware revision identifier, a software code identifier, an operating system identifier, a configuration parameter setting for the industrial device, a status indicator for the industrial device, a role identifier that identifies a role of the industrial device in the industrial process, or identification of one or more other devices communicatively connected to the industrial device.

14. The method of claim 12 , wherein the receiving comprises receiving, as the customer profile data, the customer identifier and at least one of contact information for one or more employees of the industrial enterprise, an industry identifier f

Assignees

• Rockwell Automation Tech Inc

Inventors

• Asenjo Juan L
• Strohmenger John
• Nawalaniec Stephen Thomas
• Hegrat Bradford Henry
• Harkulich Joseph A
• Korpela Jessica Lin
• Wright Jenifer Rydberg
• Hessmer Rainer
• Dyck John
• Hill Edward Alan
• Conti Salvatore T

Classifications

• G06Q10/06

  Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling · CPC title

• H04L65/403 Primary

  Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences (data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15) · CPC title

• H04L67/535

  Tracking the activity of the user (network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34) · CPC title

• Y02P90/80

  Management or planning · CPC title

• H04L67/1097

  for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS] · CPC title