Plant maintenance technology architecture
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsMario Cosmas Spira, Erich Niedermayr, Gunter Menden, Hans Klemme-Wolff, Bernhard Sommer, Jorg Tautrim
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Abstract
An overall plan for providing maintenance and technical services for businesses and plants, as broadly defined, includes generic procedures for the services written as a manual of standard practices. A knowledge base or experience database of data and people is utilized, and both hardware and software tools are selected and used in providing the services.
Claims59
Customer-related technical services for obtaining an optimal financial result of a production plant by continuously applying the steps of:
- a) providing a process description;
- b) utilizing connected software tools and hardware tools;
- and
- c) consulting an empirical database of experience.
Customer-related technical services, further comprising the steps of:
- providing a system for implementing services with individual components which are obtainable on the market, said individual components being connected to a web-based knowledge-based database that continuously works with experience values.
A method of providing maintenance services at a plant, comprising the steps of:
- providing a manual of operating principles common to all plants;
- and
- providing further information of operating principles common to all plants of a type of plant.
A method of providing maintenance services at a plant, comprising the step of:
- providing processes for addressing maintenance issues at the plant for each of a plurality of stages in a life of said plant.
A method for providing maintenance services at a plant, comprising the step of:
- providing a knowledge repository of information specific to plants of the type of said plant.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.