A method for factory analysis and/or maintenance, preferably including receiving factory information and/or associating defects with factory components, and optionally including acting based on defect associations and/or operating factory machines. The method is preferably associated with one or more manufacturing systems and/or elements thereof.

An industrial information hub (IIH) serves as a single industrial ecosystem platform where multiple participants can deliver repeatable and standardized services relevant to their core competencies. The IIH system can interface with a work order management system to facilitate automated creation and submission of work orders for maintenance tasks. To this end, the IIH system can monitor real-time data from industrial devices and identify conditions indicative of a performance issue requiring a maintenance action. When such a condition is identified, the IIH system can initiate creation of a work order in the work order management system for tracking and recording of the maintenance task.

A robot including a robot mechanism including joints and drive units, a control unit controlling the drive units so that an inspection operation to inspect one target drive unit among the drive units is executed by the robot mechanism, and a notification unit notifying maintenance information of the target drive unit based on a current value of a motor of the target drive unit during the inspection operation, or on information associated with the current value, and the inspection operation includes transmitting, to the motor of the target drive unit, control command to rotate a joint as much as a predetermined rotation angle, and thereby moving a tip of the robot mechanism or a tool at the tip, close to an object at a predetermined position from a predetermined start position, to press the object, and separating the tip of the robot mechanism or the tool away from the object.

A method for factory analysis and/or maintenance, preferably including receiving factory information and/or associating defects with factory components, and optionally including acting based on defect associations and/or operating factory machines. The method is preferably associated with one or more manufacturing systems and/or elements thereof.

A method for predicting a remaining lifetime parameter of a component installed in a system is provided, in particular of an engine component and/or a filter, the method comprising: repeatedly sensing at least one parameter of the system to obtain a history of data values;

fitting an aging pattern to the data values; and

determining a remaining lifetime parameter of the component from the aging pattern, wherein at least some data values are erased with time such that the fitting is based on a subset of the data values determined since an initialization of the algorithm, wherein data values from an initial phase are not erased but retained as anchor values for the fitting throughout the lifetime determination of the component.

There is provided a configuration at least including a screen control part configured to display on a display part a maintenance component management screen displaying a component, a mechanism, or both, as a maintenance component, a collection part configured to collect component data related to the maintenance component, a determination part configured to compare a cumulative value of the component data with a predetermined threshold value to determine the cumulative value exceeding the threshold value, a calculation part configured to calculate a replacement time, and an operation part configured to calculate replacement times based on an average value of the component data and a cumulative value of the component data for each predetermined cycle, display the maintenance component sequentially from the maintenance component reaching the earliest replacement time, and display the maintenance component on the display part in a state where the component data is updated for the predetermined cycle.

A system and method for facilitating predictive maintenance of an equipment is disclosed. The system may include a data capturer, a plurality of edge computing nodes and a cloud computing device. Each edge computing node may include a first processor. The cloud computing device may include a second processor. The first processor may receive the raw input data from the data capturer and may process the raw input data to obtain a representative data. The representative data may include an insight pertaining to a deviation in the at least one variable and a corresponding remedial action to be taken to correct the deviation. The deviation may be related to a deterioration in the condition of the equipment. The respective edge computing node may facilitate a regulation of the deviation by performing an automated actuation based on the corresponding remedial action.

A system is described including a server and manufacturing equipment, wherein the system is configured to initiate a maintenance process of the manufacturing equipment. The maintenance process includes a number of maintenance stages. The system is further configured to provide, to a user device, an instruction indicating that a first maintenance stage is to be performed. The system is further configured to receive data resulting from performance of the first maintenance stage. The system is further configured to determine that the performance of the first maintenance stage was not satisfactory. The system is further configured to cause the user device to display an indication of a corrective action to perform.

A system and method of electric arc welding that includes a welding apparatus having an electric arc welder torch with sensors to determine the absolute position of the torch tip and the relative position of the torch tip to the weld joint during automatic welding. Combining absolute and relative positional data can be used to adjust the path of the robot during automated or robotic welding in response to variations in the weld joint.

A method for the maintenance or extension of the range of functions of a self-propelled machine, in particular a tandem roller, single-drum roller, rubber-wheeled roller, refuse compactor, road finisher, road milling machine, recycler or stabilizer, comprising the steps: generating a code which can be identified at a short distance by a control device of the machine either automatically by the control device after a maintenance interval has expired, or after a request by an operator for an extension of the range of functions, wherein the code contains information about at least one machine state that changes in the course of operation of the machine, identifying the code by a mobile terminal, transmitting the information contained in the code to a central server, transmitting a release code from the server to the mobile terminal, transmitting the release code to the control device of the machine, enabling the maintenance interval or the extension of the range of functions.