Method and system for direct determination of theoretical damage to at least one component of a device

A system for directly determining a theoretical damage of at least one component of a device, the system comprising:

• an evaluation unit configured to provide load-specific reference data;
• a load sensing system configured to sense actual load-specific data, wherein the actual load-specific data includes classified load collectives comprising a dwell time of occurring damage variables at defined load levels, a number of load changes of occurring damage variables, and an event count of occurring damage variables,
• wherein the evaluation unit is configured to receive the load-specific actual data, and
• wherein the evaluation unit is further configured to scale the load-specific reference data to the load-specific actual data in order to determine the theoretical damage and remaining service life of at least one component.