Patent ID: 11962959
Assignee: SINTOKOGIO, LTD.
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. An information processing system for managing one or more pieces of equipment in at least one production facility, comprising:
one gateway or a plurality of gateways; and
a server communicably connected to the one gateway or each of the plurality of gateways,
the one gateway or the each of the plurality of gateways being communicably connected to a controller included in each of the one or more pieces of equipment and being communicably connected, without being intermediated by the controller included in the each of the one or more pieces of equipment, to an externally attached sensor accompanying the each of the one or more pieces of equipment,
the one gateway or the each of the plurality of gateways being configured to carry out processes of,
receiving, from the server, collection setting data including information indicative of a kind of information to be collected and a time the information is to be collected,
in accordance with the collection setting data, transmitting, at the time indicated by the collection setting data, to each of the controllers, information specifying a device in which information obtained by the controller and indicative of an internal state of a corresponding pierce of equipment of the one or more pieces of equipment is stored,
receiving, from each of the controllers the information indicative of the internal state of the corresponding piece of equipment of the one or more pieces of equipment,
in accordance with the collection setting data, requesting, at timing indicated by the collection setting data, from a sensor base unit, information indicative of an external state of the each of the one or more pieces of equipment,
receiving, from the sensor base unit, the information indicative of the external state of the each of the one or more pieces of equipment, and
transmitting, to the server, the information indicative of the internal state of each of the one or more pieces of equipment and the information indicative of the external state of each of the one or more pieces of equipment, and the server being configured to carry out a process of,
combining and outputting the information indicative of the internal state of each of the one or more pieces of equipment and the information indicative of the external state of each of the one or more pieces of equipment received from the one gateway or the each of the plurality of gateways.