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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2010
Applicants:
David Wang, Northville, MI (US);
Daisy Red, Royal Oak, MI (US);
Ivan Nausley, Dearborn, MI (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Comau SpA, Turin, IT;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 9/02 (2006.01); G06F 11/30 (2006.01); G05B 23/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 23/0232 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for monitoring performance of at least one task in controlled equipment is disclosed herein. The method includes collecting a series of signals associated with the at least one task, at least some of the signals in the series define timing values for the at least one task. comparing each of at least some of the timing values to a reference value, generating an accumulated variance value based on the comparisons and selectively generating a predictive failure indication based on the generated accumulated variance value.