Development of Maintenance Assisting Software Application for Mobile Work Machine

Abstract

Maintenance assisting software application has been helping in the maintenance of a mobile work machine, made for container handling, over a decade. Software application has been used to read alarm data and statistical information from the machine control system. These machine parameters have helped with machine service and designing of the preventative maintenance.

As a part of this thesis a user survey and a market comparison was executed to determine user needs for different machine parameters and other maintenance assisting functionalities in the software application.

This document serves as a functional description and specifies technical information needed for the implementation of a new version of the software application. With this specification all the essential characters and new developed characters can be transferred into the new platform.

Key points in the software application development are: - Updating machine parameters and software application functionalities to serve modern-day requirements and customer demands to all machine variations. Customer demands are based on the user survey. - Improved alarm data and statistical information analyzing to help the user in fault finding and therefore decrease the machine down-time. - Changing the communication from serial bus to Ethernet using Omron FINScommands. For the future Ethernet based communication gives better possibilities to implement wireless communication between machine and the software application. - Harmonize user interface visualization to other machine related user interfaces.