D3D OBD

D3D 3D printer on-board diagnostic.

Intro

For an agile and distributed manufacturing system to be effective in providing high quality products and customer service, it is useful to include artificial intelligence to assist the diagnosis of proper machine functioning. Assistance would be most usefulneeded An average user may not have the electronics skills to determine . to facilitate functional.diagnosis

Industry standards

OBD is usually covered under maintenance and alarming logic in a plant data system; Usually called a SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition).

Part of this system is usually a historian that records machine information in a way that allows it to store large amounts of data efficiently.

Another part that goes along with that is an alarming system that communicates to the operators at the plant. Basic stuff typically like "thermistor over temperature" "pressure to high" or "motor not moving" It sometimes uses advanced data processing and mining on historical data to guess at failures before they happen or at least tells the operators what needs to be addressed.

Goal is to let a non-technical person know what is wrong and what needs replaced. idealy, it learns from failures when they happen and uses data up to that point to try to let someone know "it might happen again". This is called automatic Root cause analysis.