IP Library Granted Patent US 11,016,753
Granted Patent B2
US 11,016,753 · App. 16/788,721 · Granted May 25, 2021

Flaw handling system, and handling method and program for flaw handling system

Inventor: Shun Sato (Nagoya, JP)
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
G06F8/65
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Patent No.
US 11,016,753
App. No.
16/788,721
Granted
May 25, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

A flaw handling system includes an off-line management server configured to manage an off-line robot and a data analysis server configured to determine whether or not an in-line robot can be updated using update-software. The off-line management server installs the update-software transmitted from a manufacturer's server in the off-line robot corresponding to the in-line robot, evaluates the update-software, and transmits a result of the evaluation of the update-software to the data analysis server. When the data analysis server determines that it is impossible to update the in-line robot using the update-software based on the result of the evaluation of the update-software by the off-line management server, the data analysis server transmits a result of the determination that the update using the update-software is impossible and the result of the evaluation of the update-software to the manufacturer's server.

Claims (26)

1. A flaw handling system comprising:

an off-line management server configured to manage an off-line robot that is not used in a production line of a factory; and

a data analysis server configured to determine whether or not an in-line robot disposed at the production line of the factory can be updated using update-software, wherein

the off-line management server installs the update-software transmitted from a manufacturer's server in the off-line robot corresponding to the in-line robot, evaluates the update-software, and transmits a result of the evaluation of the update-software to the data analysis server, and

when the data analysis server determines that it is impossible to update the in-line robot using the update-software based on the result of the evaluation of the update-software by the off-line management server, the data analysis server transmits a result of the determination that the update of the in-line robot using the update-software is impossible and the result of the evaluation of the update-software to the manufacturer's server.

2. The flaw handling system according to claim 1 , wherein the off-line management server comprises:

a software management unit configured to instruct the off-line robot corresponding to the in-line robot to be updated to output backup data to a data storage unit based on information of the in-line robot to be updated transmitted from the data analysis server;

a data storage unit configured to store the backup data of the off-line robot;

an evaluation unit configured to evaluate the update-software of the off-line robot; and

a time measurement unit configured to measure updating time of the off-line robot by the update-software.

3. The flaw handling system according to claim 1 , wherein the data analysis server comprises:

a data transmission/reception unit configured to receive the update-software from the manufacture's server and transmit the result of the determination that the update using the update-software is impossible and the result of the evaluation of the update-software to the manufacturer's server;

a robot search unit configured to search for the in-line robot to be updated based on information of the update-software output from the data transmission/reception unit and transmit information of the found in-line robot to be updated to the off-line management server; and

an update availability determination unit configured to determine whether or not it is possible to update the in-line robot using the update-software based on the updating time and the result of the evaluation of the update-software transmitted from the off-line management server.

4. A method of handling a flaw in a flaw handling system, the flaw handling system comprising:

an off-line management server configured to manage an off-line robot that is not used in a production line of a factory; and

a data analysis server configured to determine whether or not an in-line robot disposed at the production line of the factory can be updated using update-software,

the method comprising:

installing, by the off-line management server, the update-software transmitted from a manufacturer's server in the off-line robot corresponding to the in-line robot, evaluating the update-software, and transmitting a result of the evaluation of the update-software to the data analysis server; and

transmitting, by the data analysis server, when the data analysis server determines that it is impossible to update the in-line robot using the update-software based on the result of the evaluation of the update-software by the off-line management server, a result of the determination that the update using the update-software is impossible and the result of the evaluation of the update-software to the manufacturer's server.

5. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program for a flaw handling system, the flaw handling system comprising:

an off-line management server configured to manage an off-line robot that is not used in a production line of a factory, and

a data analysis server configured to determine whether or not an in-line robot disposed at the production line of the factory can be updated using update-software,

the program being adapted to cause a computer to execute processes of:

installing, by the off-line management server, the update-software transmitted from a manufacturer's server in the off-line robot corresponding to the in-line robot, evaluating the update-software, and transmitting a result of the evaluation of the update-software to the data analysis server, and

transmitting, by the data analysis server, when the data analysis server determines that it is impossible to update the in-line robot using the update-software based on the result of the evaluation of the update-software by the off-line management server, a result of the determination that the update using the update-software is impossible and the result of the evaluation of the update-software to the manufacturer's server.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 12, 2020
From: SATO, SHUN
To: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 051799/0728 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2019-046206 · Mar 13, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
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