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US 2007/0179387 A1Published application
Method and apparatus for measuring reserves of a periodically changing system
OwnerHorst Kunig, Anette Kuniginventors
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Abstract
A device is disclosed to determine functionality of the periodically changing system, to generate a functionality diagram and to measure and display functionality in said diagram. The device further measures efficiency and resource reserves of the system be comparison with efficiency and resource reference frames to determine deterioration and/or improvement of the system from the time changes of the reserves. The method and device have utility to design and monitor interventions for improvement of the system.
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A device for establishing functionality of a system consisting of:
- means responsive for measuring parameters of a system;
- means responsive to the measurements of parameters;
- means for providing functionality equations;
- means for computing to derive functionality from measured parameters and functionality equations;
- means for deriving a functionality in a functionality diagram;
- means for establishing zones of functionality and dis-functionality in the functionality diagram;
- means for measuring functionality in the functionality diagram;
- means for measuring reserves and deterioration and improvement in the functionality diagram;
- means for display of functionality, reserves, deterioration, and improvement in a functionality diagram.
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A method of diagnosing functionality of a system;
- said method including the steps of:
- measuring parameters A of said system at an initial time t1, denoted A1, and at a subsequent time t2, denoted A2;
- establishing functionality from the functionality equations
- AA*=EF(A)×A1*
- AA*=A1*×A2*
- EF(A)=(A1−A2)/A1)
- wherein performance data AA*, A1*, and A2* equal measured data AA, A1, and A2 referenced to time,
- establishing a functionality diagram;
- establishing maximal and minimal reference frames in the functionality diagram;
- comparing measured and derived performance data to the reference frames for computing efficiency and resource reserves, determining deterioration and improvement from the time changes of declining or increasing reserves and display of said data in the functionality diagram;
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