An interactive software application on a mobile computing device is used to configure an electronic torque wrench via a wireless connection. The software application obtains torque specifications for a vehicle from a remote database. When the torque specification require that work pieces be torqued in an ordered sequence, the software application guides the technician through the sequence, but accommodates changes when the technician departs from the sequence.

A construction machine is provided with a control device having an operating panel with operating elements, which can assume numerous switching states/positions, a control and monitoring unit for controlling machine components via control signals signalling the switching state/position of associated operating elements, and a display/signal unit interacting with the control and monitoring unit. The control device provides first and second signal transmission paths for transmitting a first control signal signalling the switching state/position of a first operating element and a second control signal signalling the switching state/position of a second operating element, respectively. The control signals are checked for the existence of a plausibility criterion. If the plausibility criterion is not met, signal transmission over one or the other signal transmission path is deactivated, wherein the functionality of the relevant component is checked. Switching to emergency operation is only possible after confirmation of the functionality of the relevant component.

An agricultural work vehicle according to an aspect of the invention that can monitor a state of the agricultural work vehicle when the agricultural work vehicle performs agricultural work using a working machine which is attached thereto includes: a vehicle body; a working machine that is attached to the front or rear of the vehicle body and performs agricultural work; an engine that generates a driving force for movement of the vehicle body and work of the working machine; and a monitoring device that determines at least one of whether there is an abnormality in a temperature of a coolant for cooling the engine, whether there is an abnormality in a pressure of an engine oil supplied to the engine, and whether there is an abnormality in the engine when the working machine performs work using the driving force.

A system and method for monitoring underground drilling in which vibration is monitored by creating a model of the drill string using finite element techniques or finite difference techniques and (i) predicting vibration by inputting real time values of operating parameters into the model, and adjusting the model to agree with measured vibration data, (ii) predicting the weight on bit and drill string and mud motor speeds at which resonance will occur, and when stick-slip will occur, to avoid operating regimes that will result in high vibration, (iii) determining vibration and torque levels along the length of the drill string based on the measured vibration and torque at one or more locations, (iv) determining the remaining life of critical components of the drill string based on the history of the vibration, and (v) determining the optimum drilling parameters that will avoid excessive vibration of the drill string.

Based on operation trajectory data an operation analysis device identifies all open points indicating positions at which the crusher is opened during the operation period and all close points indicating positions at which a crusher is closed during an operation period, calculates, as a shortest distance, a distance between each open point of the all open points and a close point nearest to the each open point, and identifies, as a sorting destination open point, an open point at which the shortest distance exceeds a first threshold value, identifies data until the crusher grasping the dismantling part moves to the sorting destination and returns to the dismantling target again from among the operation trajectory data as movement data of the crusher having moved in the dismantling operation, and identifies data in which the movement data has been removed from the operation trajectory data as grasping operation data.

A system and method for monitoring underground drilling in which vibration is monitored by creating a model of the drill string using finite element techniques or finite difference techniques and (i) predicting vibration by inputting real time values of operating parameters into the model, and then adjusting the model to agree with measured vibration data, (ii) predicting the weight on bit and drill string and mud motor speeds at which resonance will occur, as well as when stick-slip will occur, so that the operator can avoid operating regimes that will result in high vibration, (iii) determining vibration and torque levels along the length of the drill string based on the measured vibration and torque at one or more locations, (iv) determining the remaining life of critical components of the drill string based on the history of the vibration to which the components have been subjected, and (v) determining the optimum drilling parameters that will avoid excessive vibration of the drill string.

A method for realizing a centralized control platform for large fully-mechanized coal mining face equipment is provided. In the method, on the basis of a coal cutter system, a hydraulic support system, a coal mining face transportation system, an emulsion pump station system, a mobile transformer substation system and a video monitoring system of the large fully-mechanized coal mining face equipment, real-time monitoring, centralized coordination control and information communication network are realized by a high-speed embedded computer UNO-3072A, a high-speed data acquisition card PCI-1716, a PowerBuilder front-end development platform, an SQLServer database, a Modbus TCP/IP communication protocol and an industrial Ethernet, thereby realizing centralized control over the large underground fully-mechanized coal mining face equipment. Automated production of fully-mechanized coal mining faces is realized.

An industrial machine that includes a plurality of components, an identification tag reader, an actuator, and a controller. The plurality of components is installed in the industrial machine and each of the plurality of components includes an identification tag. The identification tag reader is receives a signal from each of the plurality of identification tags, and each signal received from the plurality of identification tags is specific to a respective one of the plurality of components. The controller identifies the plurality of components that is installed in the industrial machine based on the signals from each of the plurality of identification tags, compares the identified plurality of components to a predetermined list of components that are expected to be installed in the industrial machine, and modifies an operational setting of an operating parameter when the identified plurality of components does not match the predetermined list of components.

An excavator attachment is attached to a rotating platform of an excavator. A display unit visually displays a predicted stability indicating stability of the posture of the excavator after the excavator is manipulated.

A method for realizing a centralized control platform for large fully-mechanized coal mining face equipment is provided. In the method, on the basis of a coal cutter system, a hydraulic support system, a coal mining face transportation system, an emulsion pump station system, a mobile transformer substation system and a video monitoring system of the large fully-mechanized coal mining face equipment, real-time monitoring, centralized coordination control and information communication network are realized by a high-speed embedded computer UNO-3072A, a high-speed data acquisition card PCI-1716, a PowerBuilder front-end development platform, an SQLServer database, a Modbus TCP/IP communication protocol and an industrial Ethernet, thereby realizing centralized control over the large underground fully-mechanized coal mining face equipment. Automated production of fully-mechanized coal mining faces is realized.