A method for operating a component of predetermined geometry Ω that is cyclically loaded during operation, wherein a probability of failure P is determined for the component taking account of distributions of failure times, which are caused by deviations in material properties, the component is operated depending on the determined probability of failure P, wherein at least one maintenance time is set for the component, in particular depending on the determined probability of failure P.

An abnormality determination device includes a control unit for determining an abnormality of a robot, the control unit being configured to calculate a measurement probability distribution which is a probability distribution using disturbance torque acquired during a predetermined period as a random variable. The control unit causes an average of the calculated measurement probability distribution to conform to an average of an evaluation normal model which is a predetermined probability distribution, compares the measurement probability distribution with the evaluation normal model of which the respective averages conform to each other, and determines an abnormality of the robot in accordance with a result of the comparison.

A method for operating a component of predetermined geometry that is cyclically loaded during operation, wherein a probability of failure P is determined for the component taking account of distributions of failure times, which are caused by deviations in material properties, the component is operated depending on the determined probability of failure P, wherein at least one maintenance time is set for the component, in particular depending on the determined probability of failure P.

Embodiments for a standardized machine data interface protocol are described herein. A request for information about a state of a component of a machine may be received where the request is in an agnostic data format. A particular machine and a particular component of the particular machine may be determined based on the agnostic data format. A data structure of the agnostic data format for the particular machine and the particular component may be determined where the data structure is associated with the state. The state may be requested from the particular machine for the particular component using a format of the data structure. The state of the particular component may be received according to the format of the data structure. The state of the particular component may be converted from the format of the data structure to the agnostic data format of the request.