Equipment life span monitoring system and method
AssigneeAlstom Transport Technologies
InventorRavindra R
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Abstract
A monitoring system and method monitor one or more operational conditions of first equipment during operation of the first equipment and predict a life span of the first equipment based on the one or more operational conditions. The life span that is predicted differs from a designated life span of the first equipment that is determined prior to operation of the first equipment. The system and method can create or modify schedules for repair or replacement of other equipment to include repair or replacement of the first equipment based on the life span that is predicted.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- monitoring one or more operational conditions of first equipment during operation of the first equipment;
- and
- predicting a life span of the first equipment based on the one or more operational conditions, wherein the life span that is predicted differs from a designated life span of the first equipment that is determined prior to operation of the first equipment.
A system comprising:
- a monitoring device configured to monitor one or more operational conditions of first equipment during operation of the first equipment;
- and
- an analysis device configured to predict a life span of the first equipment based on the one or more operational conditions, wherein the life span that is predicted differs from a designated life span of the first equipment that is determined prior to operation of the first equipment.
A method comprising:
- monitoring one or more operational conditions of first equipment during operation of the first equipment;
- predicting a life span of the first equipment based on the one or more operational conditions;
- examining one or more previously generated schedules for one or more of repair or replacement of second equipment disposed along a route that the first equipment is disposed along;
- determining whether the one or more of repair or replacement of the second equipment is scheduled to occur after expiration of the life span of the first equipment that is predicted;
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- automatically modifying at least one of the previously generated schedules to include the one or more of repair or replacement of the first equipment with the one or more of repair or replacement of the second equipment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.