System and method for recognizing faults in machines
View Patent ↗A system and method for diagnosing one or more faults or one or more potential faults in a machine. The system and method has a communications module for communicating machine data between the machine and the system. It also has a fault recognition module for analyzing the machine data, which can determine one or more faults or potential faults in the machine. An expert system module having a fault tree is guided through only a truncated portion of the fault tree based upon output from the fault recognition module.
1. A method for diagnosing at least one potential or actual fault in a machine comprising:
analyzing data from the machine to determine a fault indicia for at least one potential or actual fault;
applying said data to a plurality of filters wherein each filter is user configured to recognize a specific error in said machine; and
applying the fault indicia to a fault tree having a starting point and being representative of the machine, the fault indicia being applied at a location other than the starting point of the fault tree to determine a diagnostic path within the fault tree.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the data is in a log data file format.
3. A system for diagnosing at least one potential or actual fault in a machine comprising:
a communications module for communicating machine data between the machine and the system;
a fault recognition module for analyzing the machine data to determine at least one potential or actual faults, said fault recognition model includes a plurality of filters wherein each filter is user configured to recognize a specific error in said machine; and
an expert system module having a fault tree with a starting point, where the expert system module is guided through the fault tree at a location other than the starting point of the fault tree by the determination of at least one potential or actual faults by the fault recognition module.