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20080243269 | Method and System for Scheduling Reinforcing Bars for Use in Reinforced Products - An automated method of scheduling reinforcing bars for use in reinforced products, the method including the steps of: storing default reinforced product parameters in a database ( | 10-02-2008 |
20080269919 | Bringing user attention to guidance information presented on a display device - The present invention provides methods and systems for bringing user attention to guidance information presented on a display device. These methods and systems comprise displaying guidance information in an initial animation mode, receiving a first user input in response to the displayed guidance information, determining whether the first user input satisfies validation criteria for responses to the guidance information, and displaying the guidance information in an altered animation mode when the first user input fails to satisfy the validation criteria. | 10-30-2008 |
20090069905 | System and Method for Analyzing a Production Process - The invention relates to a system and a method for analyzing a production process. In order to make it possible to analyze the production process in an improved manner for the purpose of production planning, the invention proposes a method for analyzing a production process in which at least one production device that is controlled by a control program is involved, wherein the method has the following method steps: at least one part of the control program is simulated using a simulation program and instructions which are executed in this case are logged, and an associated data record, in which the real-time requirement of an action caused by the logged instruction on the production device is respectively assigned to the logged instructions, is generated. | 03-12-2009 |
20090105854 | METHOD OF OPTIMIZING QUEUE TIMES IN A PRODUCTION CYCLE - A method of optimizing production cycle queue time includes selecting a plurality of process steps for a production cycle, calculating queue times for each of the plurality of process steps, statistically analyzing the queue times, and generating at least one visual output that illustrates the statistically analyzed queue times. | 04-23-2009 |
20090204235 | TRIGGERING AND ACTIVATING DEVICE FOR TWO COUPLED CONTROL SYSTEMS THAT CAN BE MUTUALLY ACTIVATED, AND CORRESPONDING METHOD - A triggering and activating device and an automated process coupling two reciprocally activatable monitoring devices or operational-intervention devices. A first synchronizing module synchronizes transmissible operational-intervention parameters of a lookup table with operational devices assigned to the first monitoring device, and a second synchronizing module synchronizes storable threshold-value parameters for activating the second monitoring device. Physical measuring parameters of intervention events are detected and transmitted to the activating device, an intervention-event stack being correspondingly incremented by a first filter module based on the physical measuring parameters and a dynamically implemented weighting of the lookup table. By the first filter module, based on the synchronized threshold parameters and the intervention-event stack, corresponding activating parameters are generated and, if the activating parameters exceed the predetermined threshold value, the second monitoring device is activated by an activating unit and a corresponding activating pulse. | 08-13-2009 |
20100016995 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY PROVIDING FEEDBACK - A method for dynamically providing feedback is presented. The method includes monitoring one or more steps performed by one or more components in a machine, where the one or more steps are associated with a workflow. Further, the method includes analyzing the one or more steps performed by the one or more components to dynamically determine feedback based on the one or more steps performed by the one or more components, where the feedback comprises other steps in the workflow. In addition, the method includes presenting the feedback. Systems and computer-readable medium that afford functionality of the type defined by this method is also contemplated in conjunction with the present technique. | 01-21-2010 |
20100087934 | Fuel Cell System and Adaptive Open-Loop and Closed-Loop Control Method and Apparatus Therefor - Closed-loop and open-loop systems are used for automated control of the operation of arbitrary systems. An open-loop control apparatus, which controls at least one controlled variable of a system such as a fuel cell system, has a pilot control module and an associated storage module, for storing pilot control characteristic data. The pilot control module carries out pilot control, based on a pilot control value determined from a desired value of the controlled variable from the pilot control characteristic data. A closed-loop control module performs closed-loop control of the controlled variable using a controlled portion determined on the basis of the actual value of the controlled variable. In the open-loop control apparatus, the pilot control value and the controlled portion each make respective contributions to a manipulated variable. An adaptation module matches the pilot control characteristic data in the storage module adaptively during the run time of the open-loop control apparatus. | 04-08-2010 |
20100145481 | APPARATUS HAVING A MODULARLY CONSTRUCTED, MEASURING TRANSDUCER CIRCUIT - An apparatus having at least one sensor for registering at least one chemical and/or physical, process variable, and at least one modularly constructed, measuring transducer circuit, which has at least one sensor unit, which ascertains a measured variable from the process variable registered by the sensor and supplies the sensor with energy as needed, and at least one application specific, signal processing unit for ascertaining a measured value of the measured variable, wherein a conditioned output signal is provided between the sensor unit and the application specific, signal processing unit, wherein the application specific, signal processing unit is exchangeably embodied, and wherein, as a function of a predeterminable accuracy of measurement with which the apparatus ascertains the measured values, a plurality of different types of application specific, signal processing units are provided. | 06-10-2010 |
20100234970 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADVANCED PROCESS CONTROL - A method includes: initializing first and second variables; operating equipment based on the variables; measuring first and second parameters; determining a new value for the first variable based on the first parameter, and calculating a new value for the second variable based on the second parameter and the current value of the second variable; and repeating the operating, measuring, determining and calculating. According to a different aspect, an apparatus includes a computer-readable medium storing a computer program. When executed, the program causes: initializing of first and second variables; operating equipment based on the variables; receiving measured first and second parameters; determining a new value for the first variable based on the first parameter, and calculating a new value for the second variable based on the second parameter and the current value of the second variable; and repeating the operating, measuring, determining and calculating. | 09-16-2010 |
20110015763 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A PROCESS AND FOR MONITORING THE CONDITION OF PROCESS EQUIPMENT, AND AN AUTOMATION SYSTEM - An automation system and a method for controlling a process and for monitoring the condition of process equipment. The method comprises the steps of measuring process signals indicating the condition of the process by means of a first sensor; measuring condition monitoring signals indicating the condition of process components by means of a second sensor; processing the process signals by means of a first I/O module; processing the condition monitoring signals by means of a second I/O module; transmitting the processed process signals obtained from the first I/O module to a process station. The method also comprises the steps of transferring the processed condition monitoring signals obtained from the second I/O module to the same process station; and processing both the said processed process signals and the said processed condition monitoring signals by process station software in the said process station. | 01-20-2011 |
20110087342 | ULTRASONIC SENSOR AND CONTROLLING METHOD USING THE SAME - A controlling method using an ultrasonic sensor is provided. Firstly, a first ringing time of the ultrasonic sensor is set when the ultrasonic sensor is in a standby status. Then, a sensing wave is transmitted, and a second ringing time is detected. Then, the second ringing time is compared with the first ringing time. If the second ringing time is not equal to the first ringing time, a function control signal is generated. | 04-14-2011 |
20110288661 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR STATE LIMITING IN A CONTROL SYSTEM - A method for operating a controlled device. A feedback signal is received from a controlled device, the feedback signal indicating actual system dynamics of the controlled device. A predefined limit is applied to the actual system dynamics to create limited system dynamics. A modulation parameter is calculated by a processor based at least in part on the limited system dynamics and the actual system dynamics. Desired system dynamics for the controlled device are generated by the processor based at least in part on the modulation parameter and an external command. | 11-24-2011 |
20110288662 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING HIGH EFFICIENCY SERVO ACTUATOR AND EXCITATION DRIVERS - Certain embodiments of the invention may include systems, methods, and apparatus for providing high efficiency servo actuator and excitation drivers. According to an example embodiment of the invention, a method is provided for controlling an actuator. The method may include generating a reference signal, manipulating the actuator with a switched drive signal based at least in part on the reference signal, generating a switched excitation signal, and controlling the reference signal based at least in part on feedback associated with the switched excitation signal. | 11-24-2011 |
20120221125 | RELIABILITY CENTRED MAINTENANCE - A maintenance method and apparatus based on reliability centred maintenance, applied for example to a military aircraft, include the following steps performed in a feedback manner: i) performing RCM; ii) feeding outcomes derived from performing the RCM to an update process; iii) performing the update process to provide update data for performing the RCM; and iv) inputting the update data into the performing of the RCM. The method can carry out a maintenance action selected by and/or or at a time and/or extent specified by the performing of the RCM; the outcomes that are fed to the update process including outcomes from the maintenance action that is carried out. The maintenance method thereby can provide a continuously updating RCM process. | 08-30-2012 |
20120277887 | Providing a Result with a Requested Accuracy Using Individuals Previously Acting with a Consensus - A result for a task may be provided in response to receiving a request from, for example, a user for the result. The request specifies a desired accuracy level for the result. The accuracy of the result is determined using the individual accuracies of one or more persons that have selected the result. Each person's individual accuracy is determined based on results for prior tasks previously performed by that person. The person's individual accuracy is proportional to the number of that person's prior results that are with a consensus of other persons that have performed the same prior task. The result is provided if the accuracy of the result is equal to or greater than the desired accuracy level. | 11-01-2012 |
20120323344 | AUTOMATICALLY ADJUSTABLE INDUSTRIAL CONTROL CONFIGURATION - An industrial control configuration can be a dynamic entity where different controllers are added, are subtracted, fail, etc. When dynamic functions occur, bindings of the configuration can benefit from a modification. Therefore, automatic adjustment of bindings can occur to facilitate improved operation. Automatic adjustment can be practiced when the industrial control configuration is a distributed control configuration without reliance upon a central database. | 12-20-2012 |
20130079899 | Control That Estimates Delayed Manipulated Variables - A device and method calculates and sends a manipulated variable via a network to control an actuator in a process. An indication identifying when the sent manipulated variable was applied by the actuator is received, and an applied actuator signal is estimated. Using a difference between the calculated manipulated variable and the estimated applied signal, a next calculated manipulated variable is corrected prior to sending the next calculated manipulated variable to the actuator. | 03-28-2013 |
20130079900 | CELL SELECTING APPARATUS, CELL SELECTING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - The present invention sets, for each cells or each condition, a production output of the cells or the biomass based on the measured data and a variable indicating an extent of variation of the production output, calculates a variable range of the production output and the variable in case of combining the multiple cells or conditions based on the production output and the variable set, and calculates an optimum combination within the variable range by using an optimization method. | 03-28-2013 |
20130197676 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING A CONTROL LOOP INTERACTION - A system for detecting a control loop interaction between two or more control loops. The system includes a processing circuit configured to store a history of detected loop disturbances for a plurality of control loops. The processing circuit is also configured to compute a measure of interaction between control loops using the history of detected loop disturbances. The processing circuit is further configured to determine whether a loop interaction exists based on the computed measure of interaction. | 08-01-2013 |
20130238102 | Methods And Systems For Inlet Airflow Measurement Using Inert Gas - Disclosed herein are methods and systems for gas turbine inlet air flow rate measurement using inert gas. In an embodiment, a gas meter may measure the concentration of an injected gas into an air flow. A processor may receive the measurement of the gas concentration and calculate an air mass flow rate based on the gas concentration. | 09-12-2013 |
20130282147 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESS MONITORING AND CONTROL - The system for process monitoring and control integrates statistical process control (SPC) with automatic process control (APC) through the use of a fuzzy logic (FZL) controller. In order to relate the inputs to the output, fuzzy inference rules are applied. The fuzzy rules are based on the use of the APC controller during normal situations, deviating to SPC as soon as abnormalities are detected. When the output error is negligible and the change in the output quality characteristic is almost zero, the fuzzy logic controller (FZLC) provides a utilization factor parallel for applying the APC controller. The FZLC has two inputs: the output error er | 10-24-2013 |
20140046459 | Achieving Best Effort Performance with Interfering Communications System Equipment - Primary and secondary apparatuses avoid concurrent performance of activities, wherein the secondary apparatus has a best and possibly different worst case minimum amounts of time required to perform activity. The primary apparatus ascertains a first future moment when it will become inactive and ascertains whether its upcoming period of inactivity will not be less than the secondary apparatus' best case minimum amount of time required to perform activity. If not, the primary apparatus asserts, in advance of the first future moment, an inactivity indicator signal indicating its upcoming inactivity. The interval between assertion of the inactivity indicator signal and the first future moment is greater than or equal to a difference between the secondary apparatus' worst and best case minimum amounts of time required to perform activity. | 02-13-2014 |
20140100673 | Methods and Apparatus for Process Device Calibration - Methods and apparatus are disclosed for process device calibration. An example method includes determining if a first position of a process control device is a first end position, and in response to the first position being the first end position, calculating a second end position of the process control device based on the first end position and configuration information. The example method further includes calculating a partial stroke zone of the process control device based on the first end position and the second end position, and determining when a current position of the process control device is within the partial stroke zone. The example method also includes, when the current position is within the partial stroke zone, calculating an output bias based on a control signal and a summed value. | 04-10-2014 |
20140148928 | MULTIVARIABLE CONTROL SYSTEM FOR SETPOINT DESIGN - A system and approach for development of setpoints for a controller of an engine or powertrain. The controller may be parametrized as a function of setpoints to provide performance variables that are considered acceptable by a user or operator for normal operating conditions of the engine or powertrain. With each iteration of the setpoints, the controller may be reconfigured to provide more stable and dynamically performant control of the engine or powertrain. The present system and approach may automate a previously labor intensive approach for designing setpoints for the controller. | 05-29-2014 |
20140214183 | INDUSTRIAL PLANT PRODUCTION AND/OR CONTROL UTILIZATION OPTIMIZATION - A method includes obtaining production and control utilization information for an industrial plant, wherein the information is in an electronic format and collected over time, grouping the information, based on a type of the information, into a plurality of groups, wherein the information in each group is for a same type of information, trending the information in each group over time, aggregating the trended information, evaluating the aggregated information based on predetermined evaluation criteria, and generating an electronic signal indicating the information that satisfied the predetermined evaluation criteria and the information that did not satisfy the predetermined evaluation criteria. | 07-31-2014 |
20140249655 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR CONFIGURING A SYSTEM FOR MONITORING THE PERFORMANCE OF A CONTROL LOOP OF AN INDUSTRIAL PLANT - Exemplary embodiments for configuring a system for monitoring the performance of a control loop of an industrial plant includes reading in first process data derived from measurements of at least one sensor inside the control loop during a specified control situation, calculating from the first process data a corresponding at least one performance index indicating the behaviour of the control loop and determining a first quality of the control performance depending on the difference between the at least one performance index and a corresponding threshold value. In case that the first quality of the control performance is determined to be less than good, a second quality of the control performance is determined either by calculating the second quality from an analysis of second process data or by processing a user input from a user of the system which indicates the second quality. | 09-04-2014 |
20140277602 | INTERACTIVE ENERGY DEVICE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP - A method, system and apparatus for operating an energy-using device are disclosed. Current data related to operation of the energy-using device is received at a remote device. An operating specification for the energy-using device is received at the remote device from a database. A recommended setting of the energy-using device is determined from the current data and the operating specification. The remote device communicates the recommended setting to the energy-using device. A control unit at the energy-using device receives the recommended setting and implements the recommended setting at the energy-using device. | 09-18-2014 |
20140277603 | INTERACTIVE ENERGY DEVICE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP - A method, system and apparatus for operating an energy-using device are disclosed. Current data related to operation of the energy-using device is received at a remote device. An operating specification for the energy-using device is received at the remote device from a database. A recommended setting of the energy-using device is determined from the current data and the operating specification. The remote device communicates the recommended setting to the energy-using device. A control unit at the energy-using device receives the recommended setting and implements the recommended setting at the energy-using device. | 09-18-2014 |
20140336790 | AUTOMATICALLY ADJUSTABLE INDUSTRIAL CONTROL CONFIGURATION - An industrial control configuration can be a dynamic entity where different controllers are added, are subtracted, fail, etc. When dynamic functions occur, bindings of the configuration can benefit from a modification. Therefore, automatic adjustment of bindings can occur to facilitated improved operation. Automatic adjustment can be practiced when the industrial control configuration is a distributed control configuration without reliance upon a central database. | 11-13-2014 |
20150112454 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESS MONITORING AND CONTROL - The system for process monitoring and control integrates statistical process control (SPC) with automatic process control (APC) through the use of a fuzzy logic (FZL) controller, In order to relate the inputs to the output, fuzzy inference rules are applied. The fuzzy rules are based on the use of the APC controller during normal situations, deviating to | 04-23-2015 |
20160029458 | Anticipatory Lighting from Device Screens Based on User Profile - Systems, methods, and computer readable storage mediums are provided for determining the mood of the user, deriving an appropriate lighting scheme, and then implementing that lighting scheme on all devices within a predetermined proximity to that user. Furthermore, when a user begins a task, the devices can track the user and use lighting from nearby screens to offer functional lighting. | 01-28-2016 |
20160098020 | FEEDBACK CONTROL SYSTEM WITH NORMALIZED PERFORMANCE INDICES FOR SETPOINT ALARMING - A setpoint alarming system includes a feedback controller that monitors a process variable provided as a feedback signal from a plant and uses an error signal representing a difference between the process variable and a setpoint to generate a control signal for the plant. The plant uses the control signal to affect the process variable. The system includes a normalized index generator that uses the error signal to generate a normalized performance index for the plant. The system includes an expected value estimator that estimates a value of the normalized performance index expected to occur when a setpoint error of a predetermined magnitude has persisted for a predetermined duration. The system includes an alarm manager that compares the normalized performance index to the expected value and generates an alarm in response to the normalized performance index dropping below the expected value. | 04-07-2016 |
20160154387 | FUNCTION UNIT, ANALOG INPUT UNIT, AND PROGRAMMABLE CONTROLLER SYSTEM | 06-02-2016 |
20160170393 | ONLINE INTEGRATION OF MODEL-BASED OPTIMIZATION AND MODEL-LESS CONTROL | 06-16-2016 |
20190146423 | FEEDBACK CONTROL SYSTEM WITH NORMALIZED PERFORMANCE INDICES FOR SETPOINT ALARMING | 05-16-2019 |