Valve-to-be-serviced selecting device and method

Abstract

A valve-to-be-serviced selecting device is provided with: a simple identification executing portion identifying a service-candidate valve by a method that is relatively non-labor-intensive (a relatively low-cost method), a fine identification executing portion identifying a service-candidate valve by a method that is relatively labor-intensive (a relatively high-cost method), and a valve-to-be-serviced determination processing portion. The valve-to-be-serviced determination processing portion performs the simple identification by the simple identification executing portion for valves 1-1 through 1-n (N valves), and then performs fine identification, through the fine identification executing portion service-candidate valves identified by the simple identification (M valves), to determine those valves to be subjected to servicing from among the valves 1-1 through 1-n.

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