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• • G—PHYSICS
  • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
  • G06Q—INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • G06Q10/00—Administration; Management
  • G06Q10/10—Office automation; Time management

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• the invention relates to a method for planning, documentation and implementation of the maintenance of equipment or the like and for documentation and description of equipment or the like.
• the object of the invention is to propose a method which allows an in-depth and comprehensive planning of systems or the like and also provides detailed documentation, instructions, maintenance, resource and cost plans, as well as sound statements about the availability of the respective system. This object is achieved in that the essential information about all modules of the system are brought together.
• the information about assemblies and variants of assemblies include maintenance intervals, triggering events, maintenance periods and / or downtimes of the respective assembly or variant.
• upcoming maintenance or soon due service work which may include, for example, the replacement of parts, put on operational downtime of the equipment.
• the conditions of use can be essential factors for the evaluation of the collected information. For example, it is conceivable that under certain conditions of use, for example, the wear or the maintenance intensity of certain assemblies increases. This can be taken into account for the scheduled maintenance, cost, resources, etc. Also, it can be optimized to minimize wear or maintenance.
• Another very advantageous embodiment of the invention lies in the fact that by linking the information collected, in particular from the information about the modules assigned to a system or variants of modules and associated with the modules or variants of modules information individually to the respective system tailored documentation is created.
• Another very advantageous embodiment of the invention lies in the fact that by linking the information collected, in particular from the information about the modules assigned to a system or variants of modules and associated with the modules or variants of modules information individually to the respective system tailored maintenance plans are created.
• Such maintenance plans can not only consider plant-specific conditions, but also special operating conditions.
• Another very advantageous development of the invention is also to be seen in the fact that by linking the information collected, in particular from the information about a system associated assemblies or variants of modules and associated with the modules or variants of modules information individually on the tailored plant spare parts requirements planning are created.
• Another very advantageous development of the invention is also to be seen in that individually by linking the collected information, in particular from the information about a plant associated assemblies or variants of modules and the assemblies or variants of modules information on the specific calculations are made on default probabilities.
• An extremely advantageous embodiment of the invention is also present when the method is carried out on a computer.
• the management of the collected data is considerably simplified by the use of a database system.
• Another very advantageous embodiment of the invention is also to be seen in the fact that the method as a link between conventional maintenance planning, Documentation systems, editorial systems, manufacturing and the respective users and service technicians is trained.
• the maintenance work to be carried out can, if possible, be planned for precisely these downtimes in order to avoid additional downtimes as far as possible.
• plans can be drawn up which, in the case of certain work in progress, assign other, soon to be completed works that are only executed when these first works have been carried out. In this way, the workflows can be significantly optimized, even when maintenance is required.
• the operation of the plant can be optimized, for example, in terms of throughput and / or maintenance frequency on the basis of the collected information and the calculated probabilities for, for example, failure frequencies.
• documentation and / or maintenance documents can essentially be created at the touch of a button and, if necessary, transferred to other programs for further processing.
• the documentation can be further processed and made accessible by means of a publishing system, in particular a desktop publishing system.
• All plans drawn up in the planning phase can continue to be used after the construction and delivery of the system and allow the plant to be operationally controlled with regard to relevant parameters, but also with regard to work and maintenance etc.. Furthermore, already performed maintenance and events can be integrated into the process, so that they can be taken into account for upcoming events, maintenance, failure probabilities or cost, spare parts and personnel planning. In addition, machine conditions required for the work can be taken into account.
• the maintenance data can be passed, for example, to various maintenance systems.
• the aforementioned maintenance also includes repairs and repairs or the like.
• the maintenance planning can also be adjusted by variants formed to different environmental or operating conditions, such as on different processed materials or the like.
• the method according to the invention relates not only to the maintenance planning but also to the documentation or description of the plant or of plant components.
• specific service information can be added or provided for the respective maintenance work.
• one-time inputs are not only usable for a system, but due to the modularization and variant formation universally applicable to a variety of systems, so that the amount of work for the provision of information for the respective individual system is reduced. This has been one of the biggest problems, especially in individual manufacturing plants, for example for the automotive industry. Up to now, it has only been possible to integrate the necessary maintenance requirements into a conventional maintenance planning system with great effort. There was still no documentation and service information available that was mostly managed in other systems such as SAP. Traditional maintenance planning was often done with SAP PM / CS.
• the process according to the invention often eliminates the need for the most extensive, comprehensive description and service information libraries which were very difficult to handle. Rather, the equipment manufacturers were approached with questions and asked for information. This is rendered unnecessary by the integration and demand-based information compilation made possible by the method according to the invention, which saves considerable costs both on the part of the plant manufacturer and on the part of the plant operator. In addition, system downtimes are shortened because the information is available immediately and without waiting times.
• the method according to the invention enables the complete integration of planning, production, documentation, operation and maintenance of installations by adding to each At any point in time, the necessary information can be easily filtered out of a complete database and made available.
• inventive method also allows feedback from the plant operation to the manufacturer, so that lessons learned from this can be incorporated into the construction of new facilities.
• These new systems can thus be optimized with regard to service friendliness, downtimes etc.
• the method according to the invention makes it possible to obtain useful feedback only through the extensive collection of information, operating data and events, by means of which the maintenance strategy and / or the operating parameters can be constantly optimized even in the case of already existing systems.
• the method relies on data obtained from sensors as well as data entered by operating and service personnel.
• TCO total cost of ownership
• the Total Cost Of Ownership also includes damage events and repairs.
• estimated damage incidents and their repair duration are determined in accordance with the individual data recorded for each individual component.
• a mean error probability (MTBF) of the component and also of the entire system can be determined.
• MTBF mean error probability
• an O-ring can be installed in an assembly, which usually has a service life of 1000 operating hours.
• an early change of the O-ring can be planned as part of the overall planning and, on the other hand, the cost of the change (MTTR) can be taken into account and included in the TCO.

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• 2005
  • 2005-03-31 DE DE200510015023 patent/DE102005015023A1/de not_active Withdrawn
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