Casestudie Breakdown prediction Contell PILOT - Transumo

alarms by the use of additionally attached equipment like sirens, flashlights or dialers.
[2DI2006]
The ThermaViewer is a quite powerful solution for temperature monitoring purposes
within small laboratories. But as it uses again the approach of setting critical
temperature limits, it is faced with the same methodological problems like XiltriX. Due
to the same approach and a similar implementation, the ThermaViever complies the
same way with the requirements analysis than Xiltrix. This is illustrated in Table 3-5.
Table 3-5: Compliance of the 2DI ThermaViewer According to the Requirements Analysis
Product is able to classify the current state of a monitored device
Product is able to recognize significant changes of behavior on the short-run
Product is able to recognize significant changes of behavior on the long-run
Product is able to predict upcoming failures
Product is able to identify failures as soon as they are recognizable
Product is able to avoid an error of second kind in any case
Product is able to recognize external influences
An additional problem of the ThermaViewer is the limited decentralized data storage,
which disables extended data analysis on the long run, because only the last 44000
measuring points are available (that is about 15 months, if a measuring point is
stored every 15 minutes). But as this is not a methodological problem, but only a
question of available memory, this problem can be neglected.
3.5.3 Systems Offering Data Analysis in Retrospect
Up to now, the introduced products within section 3.5 were kept relatively simple. In
fact, most available systems in the market are kept as simple as the just introduced
ones. The just mentioned ThermaViewer, for instance, is already one of the few
higher developed systems, because it is able to store and display historical data.
Most other monitoring products like the “Temperature Alarm System” from Triple Red
just alarm in case of a temperature exceeding without offering additional information
[Triple06].
Only very few centralized temperature monitoring systems like XiltriX do exist in the
market because most laboratories are still not aware of the danger of malfunctioning
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