Method and system for determining a need for maintenance for a coordinate measuring device

A computer-implemented method for determining maintenance requirements of a first coordinate measuring device, the method comprising, in a computational environment:

• providing a digital-twin database comprising individual digital twins for each of a multitude of coordinate measuring devices including the first coordinate measuring device, each coordinate measuring device comprising a plurality of components, each individual digital twin comprising information about the individual components of the respective coordinate measuring device;
• continuously receiving usage-related data regarding a usage of the multitude of coordinate measuring devices, particularly a usage in coordinate measuring applications;
• receiving maintenance data related to maintenance events of the coordinate measuring devices;
• using one or more algorithms to perform a maintenance analysis involving the maintenance data of at least a subset of the multitude of coordinate measuring devices, the information about the components used in the coordinate measuring devices of the subset and the usage-related data of the coordinate measuring devices of the subset;
• and
• predicting, based on a result of the maintenance analysis, maintenance requirements for the first coordinate measuring device, wherein:
• maintenance information regarding the predicted maintenance requirements is automatically provided to the first coordinate measuring device, to a mobile device of an operator assigned to the first coordinate measuring device, and/or to a maintenance service provider;
• and/or
• a maintenance appointment for the first coordinate measuring device is automatically scheduled based on the predicted maintenance requirements.