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Diagnosing the Beam Propeller Movement<br />
of the Frontal St<strong>and</strong><br />
5.2 Scope of the Target System<br />
* 04/29/2005 12:41:25 CLARIFY (CLARIFY)* Clarify Case:<br />
1593793* Material #: 72246 Serial #: 26204* Unknown Contact:<br />
********** FE, FSE** Customer Information:* NEW YORK METHODIST<br />
HOSPITAL ATT: ACCOUNTS PAYABLE* 506 SIXTH ST* BROOKLYN, NY<br />
11215 US* Phone: 2350** *** PHONE LOG 04/29/2005 03:40:52 PM<br />
ReneeL* Q/O.... RESTORATION OF JUNCTION MOVEMENT*** *** CASE<br />
CLOSE 04/29/2005 03:40:56 PM ReneeL* Q/O....RESTORATION OF<br />
JUNCTION MOVEMENT** *** SUBCASE 1593793-1 CLOSED 04/29/2005<br />
03:41:18 PM ReneeL*CA(00009021),05/16/2005: Assisted<br />
********** with removal <strong>and</strong> reinstallation junction motor <strong>and</strong><br />
gear box.Andcalibration <strong>and</strong> aligment.Plus total replacment of<br />
Poly Gpower supply. *; *;*;*CA(2350),05/18/2005: performed<br />
total restoration ofjunction rotation installed new motor,<br />
gear box,brake <strong>and</strong>belt mechanism replaced control ckt incl LUC<br />
<strong>and</strong>Extension, twin MVR high power <strong>and</strong> power supplycalibration<br />
complete tested ok*;<br />
Figure 5.1: Jobsheet referring to problems with the beam propeller movement.<br />
5.2.1 The Beam Propeller Movement function<br />
When the doctor is diagnosing a patient he likes to make images of different parts of the patient’s<br />
heart <strong>and</strong> vascular veins <strong>and</strong> under various angles. In order to do so he is able to move the table <strong>and</strong><br />
frontal st<strong>and</strong> in various angels of freedom. There is a subsystem defined, called Geometry, that is<br />
responsible for such mechanical movements within the Philips Cardio-Vascular X-Ray System. It<br />
consists of mechanics as well as the related hardware <strong>and</strong> software components. Of course, these<br />
mechanical movements are subject to failures.<br />
The text of Figure 5.1 shows a job sheet that is written by a service engineer faced with such a<br />
failure. Without experience, it is quite hard to read, but if you take a close look on this data you can<br />
see it is referring to the beam propeller movement 1 . It seems that the movement has caused quite<br />
some trouble: all FRUs that seem to have something to do with the movement have been replaced.<br />
However, it is very unlikely that all these FRUs were malfunctioning. Why did the service engineer<br />
replace all parts, anyway? Probably he did not know what was wrong <strong>and</strong> could not afford the risk<br />
of leaving the operator with any more failures. The remainder of this chapter clarifies how MBD<br />
can help.<br />
Of all movements the beam propeller movement is chosen because its FRUs are accessible quite<br />
easily 2 . The beam propeller movement function enables the operator to rotate the frontal st<strong>and</strong>. By<br />
means of some kind of peripheral device - usually a joystick - the user requests a speed in a certain<br />
direction. The system does whatever it needs to do in order to make the frontal st<strong>and</strong> rotate at the<br />
requested speed, see Figure 5.2. Most of the time this is sufficient, however there are occasions in<br />
which the operator faces difficulties. In that case, a failure has occurred related to the beam propeller<br />
movement. Because this part of the medical system is safety critical, developers have thought of<br />
an error detection mechanism in order to prevent the moving parts from doing any harm. If the<br />
1 ”Junction movement” is the old term within PMS for ”Beam propeller movement”.<br />
2 Remark: An automated approach has even more benefits on a system when the components are hard to reach,<br />
because the diagnostic process does not need to access the parts physically. However, this pilot study prefers a more<br />
comfortable set-up.<br />
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