Abstract: Equipment in a production facility is managed with use of information from the equipment and information from a sensor for measurement of a state of the equipment, while achieving a high degree of freedom in increasing and decreasing the number of such sensors. The present invention is provided with a gateway (10) and a server (20). The gateway is connected to a controller included in each piece of equipment and connected, without being intermediated by the controller, to an externally attached sensor accompanying the each piece of equipment. The server is connected to the gateway. The gateway carries out the processes of: receiving, from each controller, information indicative of an internal state of the piece of equipment; receiving, from each sensor, information indicative of an external state of the piece of equipment; and transmitting these pieces of information to the server.

Abstract: For equipment in a production facility, information for more appropriately determining a state of the equipment is presented. The information processing device: receives information indicative of a state of equipment in a production facility (S202); carries out a process of outputting, when the received information indicative of the state of the equipment satisfies a first condition, a first alarm for prompting maintenance of the equipment (S204); carries out a process of outputting, when the information indicative of the state of the equipment satisfies a second condition, a second alarm that indicates occurrence of abnormality or a sign of abnormality in the equipment (S206); and carries out a process of outputting, in a distinguishably recognizable manner, a tendency in which the first alarm is outputted and a tendency in which the second alarm is outputted (S207).

Abstract: To achieve the object of making it easier to collectively grasp the state of the production line, an information processing method includes a first screen displaying step and a second screen displaying step. A first screen displaying step displays a first screen including a plurality of widgets. Each of the widgets is configured based on information outputted from application software which is associated with each of the widgets among a plurality of pieces of application software that manage a state of a production line. A second screen displaying step, when an operation performed on any widget of the plurality of widgets has been accepted, displays a second screen of application software which is associated with the widget.

Abstract: A screen image generation device for generating a screen image indicating a state of a facility in a production plant is provided which ensures a real-time property of a management screen image needed in actual production plants and reduce required levels of making a network faster in speed and wider in bandwidth. A server functioning as the device performs first acquisition of regularly acquiring first data transmitted from a sensor and concerning the facility at intervals of a first time, second acquisition of regularly acquiring second data transmitted from a controller and concerning the facility at intervals of a second time shorter than the first time, third acquisition of acquiring, in real time, an alert irregularly transmitted from the controller and concerning the facility, and generation of generating the management screen image indicating the state of the facility in accordance with the first data, the second data, and the alert.

Abstract: Equipment in a production facility is managed with use of information from the equipment and information from a sensor for measurement of a state of the equipment, while achieving a high degree of freedom in increasing and decreasing the number of such sensors. The present invention is provided with a gateway (10) and a server (20). The gateway is connected to a controller included in each piece of equipment and connected, without being intermediated by the controller, to an externally attached sensor accompanying the each piece of equipment. The server is connected to the gateway. The gateway carries out the processes of: receiving, from each controller, information indicative of an internal state of the piece of equipment; receiving, from each sensor, information indicative of an external state of the piece of equipment; and transmitting these pieces of information to the server.

Abstract: For equipment in a production facility, information for more appropriately determining a state of the equipment is presented. The information processing device: receives information indicative of a state of equipment in a production facility (S202); carries out a process of outputting, when the received information indicative of the state of the equipment satisfies a first condition, a first alarm for prompting maintenance of the equipment (S204); carries out a process of outputting, when the information indicative of the state of the equipment satisfies a second condition, a second alarm that indicates occurrence of abnormality or a sign of abnormality in the equipment (S206); and carries out a process of outputting, in a distinguishably recognizable manner, a tendency in which the first alarm is outputted and a tendency in which the second alarm is outputted (S207).

Abstract: To achieve the object of making it easier to collectively grasp the state of the production line, an information processing method includes a first screen displaying step and a second screen displaying step. A first screen displaying step displays a first screen including a plurality of widgets. Each of the widgets is configured based on information outputted from application software which is associated with each of the widgets among a plurality of pieces of application software that manage a state of a production line. A second screen displaying step, when an operation performed on any widget of the plurality of widgets has been accepted, displays a second screen of application software which is associated with the widget.

Abstract: In a control apparatus, a discharge control unit controls an igniter unit so that a flow of current from a primary coil towards a ground side is blocked, thereby generating a high voltage in a secondary coil, and controls a spark plug so that the spark plug generates electric discharge. An energy input control unit controls an energy input unit so as to input electrical energy to an ignition coil after the start of control of the spark plug by the discharge control unit. A control unit and an abnormality detecting unit detects an abnormality in the igniter unit or the ignition coil based on a first threshold and a first current value that is a value corresponding to a current detected by a current detection circuit at this time, when a first predetermined period elapses after the start of control of the spark plug by the discharge control unit.

Abstract: An ignition device for engine according to the present invention performs continuous spark discharge of an ignition plug by using a multiplex signal, an integration signal or a control signal. In the multiplex signal, discharge continuous signals IGW#1 to 4 for cylinders of the engine have been multiplexed. In the integration signal, a discharge continuous signal IGW and a secondary current instruction signal IGA have been added to an ignition signal IGT. In the control signal, the secondary current instruction signal IGA has been added into the multiplex signal or the integration signal. This structure can reduce the total number of signal lines connected between an ECU and a controller, and further reduce a signal line to transmit the secondary current instruction signal IGA.

Abstract: In a control apparatus, a discharge control unit controls an igniter unit so that a flow of current from a primary coil towards a ground side is blocked, thereby generating a high voltage in a secondary coil, and controls a spark plug so that the spark plug generates electric discharge. An energy input control unit controls an energy input unit so as to input electrical energy to an ignition coil after the start of control of the spark plug by the discharge control unit. A control unit and an abnormality detecting unit detects an abnormality in the igniter unit or the ignition coil based on a first threshold and a first current value that is a value corresponding to a current detected by a current detection circuit at this time, when a first predetermined period elapses after the start of control of the spark plug by the discharge control unit.

Abstract: An ignition device for engine according to the present invention performs continuous spark discharge of an ignition plug by using a multiplex signal, an integration signal or a control signal. In the multiplex signal, discharge continuous signals IGW#1 to 4 for cylinders of the engine have been multiplexed. In the integration signal, a discharge continuous signal IGW and a secondary current instruction signal IGA have been added to an ignition signal IGT. In the control signal, the secondary current instruction signal IGA has been added into the multiplex signal or the integration signal. This structure can reduce the total number of signal lines connected between an ECU and a controller, and further reduce a signal line to transmit the secondary current instruction signal IGA.