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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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