Maintenance scheduling apparatus and method therefor
AssigneeKomatsu Ltd.
InventorTsugio Sudou
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Abstract
A running control unit receives fuel residual quantity information from each vehicle by radio to deduce a period of time, during which the vehicle can operate, on the basis of the information and vehicle fuel consumption rate information in a database. Also, the running control unit reads production information, production planning information, and oil station information from a data base to calculate are fueling permissible number, for which refueling may be done simultaneously at the oil station, on the basis of these information and information of the number of the vehicles. Then the running control unit makes up refueling schedules for a plurality of vehicles on the basis of an operating period of time for each vehicle and the refueling permissible number.
Claims11
A maintenance scheduling apparatus for making up maintenance schedules for a plurality of vehicles, comprising:
- detection means for detecting vehicle information including at least one of operating situations and vehicular states of the plurality of vehicles, the detection means detecting respective present positions and at least one of consumption and residual quantities of fuel of the plurality of vehicles,
- position storage means for storing positional information of maintenance locations where maintenance for the vehicles is done, and
- scheduling means for making up the maintenance schedules for the plurality of vehicles and determining whether respective vehicles of the plurality of vehicles have sufficient fuel for travel to respective maintenance locations based on the detected vehicle information, the positional information of the maintenance locations stored in the position storage mean, the detected present positions, and the at least one of detected consumption and residual quantities of fuel of the respective vehicles, where the maintenance schedules prevent more vehicles than a predetermined number of vehicles from being suspended in operation at the same time.
A maintenance scheduling apparatus for making up maintenance schedules for a plurality of vehicles, comprising:
- detection means for detecting vehicle information including at least one of operating situations and vehicular states of the plurality of vehicles, the detection means detecting respective present positions and at least one of consumption and residual quantities of fuel of the plurality of vehicles,
- position storage means for storing positional information of maintenance locations where maintenance for the vehicles is done, and
- scheduling means for making up the maintenance schedules for the plurality of vehicles an determining whether respective vehicles of the plurality of vehicles have sufficient fuel for travel to respective maintenance locations based on the detected vehicle information, the positional information of the maintenance location stored in the position storage means, the detected present positions, and the at least one of detected consumption and residual quantities of fuel of the respective vehicles, where the maintenance schedules maintains a predetermined number of vehicles in operation at the same time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.