APPARATUS THAT ANALYSES ATTRIBUTES OF DIVERSE MACHINE TYPES AND TECHNICALLY UPGRADES PERFORMANCE BY APPLYING OPERATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE PROCESS THEREFOR

摘要

In a computerised system of control, management and optimisation for machine tools, operational data thereof is compared/matched with historical data in realtime. Historical and contemporary operation data of the same and/or other machines, including machines of other species is harvested and housed in a central data warehouse that is continuously updated. Operation data, and patterns thereof, of non-invasive attributes of the target machine(s) are compared/matched with the warehoused data by multi-variate analysis, thresholding and symbolic and non-symbolic pattern matching to generate control inputs and metrics for performance evaluation, performance upgrade such as of legacy machines and for status evaluation with regard to health(maintenance), risk/safety and environmental impacts thereof. Preferably, the power attributes of voltage, amperage, wattage and power factor together with compressed air and coolant flow rates are monitored. Methods of operating data processing/transformation are disclosed. The system can be applied to other machines and processes.