Maintenance system and method for analyzing functional failures of a system
First Claim
1. A method for analyzing functional failures of a technical system, wherein a processor computes a meta data model by executing the following steps:
- gathering at least one failure mode for each component of a system dataset describing said technical system;
associating at least one effect and at least one related maintenance task with each failure mode to mitigate and/or to dissolve said effect;
at least one situation dataset with said system dataset reflecting conditions of a specific situation while said technical system is operating;
a design reliability dataset indicating a first probability with each failure mode defined during a design time of the technical system;
a situation reliability dataset indicating a second probability with a failure mode defined by the at least one situation dataset in the meta data model; and
computing failure probabilities of said technical system based on said meta data model, while the technical system is in the specific situation; and
wherein said technical system comprises at least one sensor to acquire the at least one situation dataset or to create a new situation dataset and updating the meta data model with the at least one situation dataset or the new situation dataset.
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Abstract
A method for analyzing functional failures of a technical system using a processor to compute a meta data model, including the following steps is provided. A first step of gathering at least one failure mode for each component of a system dataset describing the technical system. A second step of associating at least one effect and at least one related maintenance task with each failure mode to mitigate and/or to dissolve the effect in the meta data model. A third step of computing failure probabilities of said technical system based on the meta data model, while the technical system is in the specific situation.
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1. A method for analyzing functional failures of a technical system, wherein a processor computes a meta data model by executing the following steps:
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gathering at least one failure mode for each component of a system dataset describing said technical system; associating at least one effect and at least one related maintenance task with each failure mode to mitigate and/or to dissolve said effect; at least one situation dataset with said system dataset reflecting conditions of a specific situation while said technical system is operating; a design reliability dataset indicating a first probability with each failure mode defined during a design time of the technical system; a situation reliability dataset indicating a second probability with a failure mode defined by the at least one situation dataset in the meta data model; and computing failure probabilities of said technical system based on said meta data model, while the technical system is in the specific situation; and wherein said technical system comprises at least one sensor to acquire the at least one situation dataset or to create a new situation dataset and updating the meta data model with the at least one situation dataset or the new situation dataset. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 16, 17)
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6. A method for analyzing functional failures of a technical system, wherein a processor computes a meta data model by executing the following steps:
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gathering at least one failure mode for each component of a system dataset describing said technical system; associating at least one effect and at least one related maintenance task with each failure mode to mitigate and/or to dissolve said effect; at least one situation dataset with said system dataset reflecting conditions of a specific situation while said technical system is operating; a design reliability dataset indicating a first probability with each failure mode defined during a design time of the technical system; a situation reliability dataset indicating a second probability with a failure mode defined by the at least one situation dataset in the meta data model; computing failure probabilities of said technical system based on said meta data model, while the technical system is in the specific situation; and wherein said technical system comprises at least one sensor to acquire the at least one situation dataset or to create a new situation dataset, the at least one situation dataset or the new situation dataset is preferably transmitted to a centralized maintenance station, the centralized maintenance station updates the meta data model with the at least one situation dataset or the new situation dataset, the centralized maintenance station computes the failure probabilities of said technical system, while the technical system is in the specific situation, and the centralized maintenance station preferably computes the failure probabilities of at least one other technical system, while the at least one other technical system is in a specific situation. - View Dependent Claims (9)
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12. A maintenance system for analyzing the functional failures of at least one technical system, comprising:
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a processor to compute a meta data model; a database unit to store the meta data model; a gathering unit to gather at least one failure mode for each component of a system dataset describing said technical system; an association unit to associate in the meta data model at least one effect and at least one related maintenance task with each failure mode to mitigate and/or to dissolve said effect; at least one situation dataset with said system dataset reflecting conditions of a specific situation while said technical system is operating; a design reliability dataset indicating a first probability with each failure mode defined during a design time of the technical system; a situation reliability dataset indicating a second probability with a failure mode defined by the specific situation; a computation unit to compute by the processor failure probabilities of said technical system based on said meta data model while said technical system is in the specific situation; and updating the meta data model with the at least one specific situation or a new situation dataset while said technical system is in the specific situation. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15)
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