ID

UC003

Name

Static Maintenance Information

Objective

As a service technician I want to get static information about items (components or machines) in a vision system to obtain spare parts or detect possible incompatibilities.

Description

A service technician comes onto the vision system (possibly physically or in any case with a network connection) and tries to get an overview of things relevant to them.

This can take place on different levels. There should be a consistent interface to detect all the components and access their basic information. Then, after identifying the relevant components, additional, vendor-specific information and interfaces may be exposed.

It may be a service technician from the main vision system vendor, it could also be from a component vendor. For example, if the vision system is using highly sophisticated third-party frame grabbers or cameras which need special maintenance from the original manufacturer. They log in to the system and want to find out what items there are based on some filter criteria, like manufacturer, item type, serial number, some date, firmware/driver version, etc.