Support for maintenance of a fleet of vehicles with intuitive display of repair analytics

A method of supporting maintenance of a fleet of vehicles, the method comprising:

• executing a computer-readable program code via a processing circuitry to generate a graphical user interface (GUI) to enable a user to request and receive repair analytics for a fleet of vehicles, the GUI including a first frame within which a collection of filters are grouped, the collection of filters including a date-range filter with one or more graphical control elements to enable the user to select a date range for the repair analytics, and the GUI including a second frame within which at least some of the repair analytics are displayed;
• receiving a user request for repair analytics for the fleet of vehicles via the GUI, including user selection of the date range via the date-range filter;
• interpreting the user request to produce a query of one or more datasets for the fleet of vehicles, the one or more datasets including an in-service time for vehicles of the fleet of vehicles, and repair transactions including repair costs for the vehicles;
• executing the query of the one or more datasets for data of the vehicles of the fleet of vehicles, the data including the in-service time and the repair costs over the date range for the vehicles;
• determining a moving average repair cost per unit of in-service time for a plurality of time periods within the date range from the in-service time and the repair costs;
• and
• generating a moving-average-repair-cost (MARC) chart in the second frame of the GUI, the MARC chart graphically illustrating the moving average repair cost per unit of in-service time for the plurality of time periods wherein the GUI further includes a third frame within which at least some of the repair analytics are displayed, and the repair transactions in the one or more datasets identify the repair costs by charge type of a plurality of charge types for the repair costs, and wherein the method further comprises:
• determining a repair cost and percentage of number of repair transactions or total repair cost over the date range for each of the plurality of charge types from the repair costs for the vehicles;
• and generating a charge-type table in the third frame of the GUI, the charge-type table identifying the plurality of charge types, and the repair cost and percentage of number of repair transactions or total repair cost for each of the plurality of charge types.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for supporting maintenance of a fleet of vehicles, the computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code stored therein that in response to execution by a processing circuitry, causes an apparatus to at least:

• generate a graphical user interface (GUI) to enable a user to request and receive repair analytics for a fleet of vehicles, the GUI including a first frame within which a collection of filters are grouped, the collection of filters including a date-range filter with one or more graphical control elements to enable the user to select a date range for the repair analytics, and the GUI including a second frame within which at least some of the repair analytics are displayed;
• receive a user request for repair analytics for the fleet of vehicles via the GUI, including user selection of the date range via the date-range filter;
• interpret the user request to produce a query of one or more datasets for the fleet of vehicles, the one or more datasets including an in-service time for vehicles of the fleet of vehicles, and repair transactions including repair costs for the vehicles;
• execute the query of the one or more datasets for data of the vehicles of the fleet of vehicles, the data including the in-service time and the repair costs over the date range for the vehicles;
• determine a moving average repair cost per unit of in-service time for a plurality of time periods within the date range from the in-service time and the repair costs;
• and
• generate a moving-average-repair-cost (MARC) chart in the second frame of the GUI, the MARC chart graphically illustrating the moving average repair cost per unit of in-service time for the plurality of time periods wherein the GUI further includes a third frame within which at least some of the repair analytics are displayed, and the repair transactions in the one or more datasets identify the repair costs by charge type of a plurality of charge types for the repair costs, and wherein the non-transitory computer-readable storage medium has further computer-readable program code stored therein that in response to execution by the processing circuitry causes the apparatus to further at least:
• determine a repair cost and percentage of number of repair transactions or total repair cost over the date range for each of the plurality of charge types from the repair costs for the vehicles;
• and generate a charge-type table in the third frame of the GUI, the charge-type table identifying the plurality of charge types, and the repair cost and percentage of number of repair transactions or total repair cost for each of the plurality of charge types.