Intelligent diagnostics with DiagNet

You know the scenario. The system is down and the hectic and often time-consuming search for the fault begins. Apart from the logistic problems involved, it is vital to be able to keep the deadlines and avoid incurring high costs as a result of production stops. The more highly distributed the design of the system is, the more complex this task becomes. As a rule, the diagnostics software only indicates the logical location of the fault (e.g. 4.7), and this does not always point to the physical point of installation. The maintenance engineer must therefore go out and look for the fault. And even when the engineer has found the fault, it is frequently not possible to understand the messages displayed (e.g. when certain LEDs light up) if, as so often, the corresponding data sheet is not at hand.