US 12,437,128 B2
Designing, configuring and maintaining a drive device
Michael Hegmann, Schwabach (DE); Michael Leipold, Nuremberg (DE); and Sven Ludwig Kellner, Erlangen (DE)
Assigned to Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 17/280,608
Filed by Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed Sep. 17, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/074789
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 26, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/064412, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 2, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 18197453 (EP), filed on Sep. 28, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0043945 A1, Feb. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 30/17 (2020.01); G06G 7/63 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 30/17 (2020.01) [G06G 7/63 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for designing, configuring, operating and maintaining a drive device, said method comprising:
acquiring, with a measuring device, measured data describing operation and operating conditions of the drive device;
generating with a first application program, data describing designing of the drive device;
generating with a second application program, data describing configuring of the drive device:
generating with a third application program, data describing maintaining of the drive device;
supplying the measured data to a fourth application program;
generating with the fourth application program data describing operation and operating conditions of the drive device by processing the measured data:
storing database data, as temporal data, the data generated by the first, second, third, and fourth application programs in a chronological sequence in a central database;
reading and supplementing the central database data by the first second third, and fourth application programs;
defining configuration rules, dependent on a life cycle phase of the drive device, for a configuration change to a configuration of the drive device;
defining typical configuration changes to the configuration of the drive device;
changing a configuration of the drive device according to at least one of the configuration rules;
monitoring whether the at least one of the configuration rules are complied with on the configuration change to the configuration of the drive device;
monitoring whether the configuration change to the configuration of the drive device is a typical configuration change; and
generating a warning when the configuration rules are not complied with or the configuration change to the configuration of the drive device is not a typical configuration change indicating a potential misconfiguration and enabling the potential misconfiguration to be prevented.