Plant maintenance technology architecture
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1. Customer-related technical services for obtaining an optimal financial result of a production plant by continuously applying the steps of:
- a) providing a process description;
b) utilizing connected software tools and hardware tools; and
c) consulting an empirical database of experience.
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Abstract
An overall plan for providing maintenance and technical services for businesses and plants, as broadly defined, includes generic procedures for the services written as a manual of standard practices. A knowledge base or experience database of data and people is utilized, and both hardware and software tools are selected and used in providing the services.
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59 Claims
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1. Customer-related technical services for obtaining an optimal financial result of a production plant by continuously applying the steps of:
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a) providing a process description;
b) utilizing connected software tools and hardware tools; and
c) consulting an empirical database of experience. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 49)
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24. Customer-related technical services, further comprising the steps of:
providing a system for implementing services with individual components which are obtainable on the market, said individual components being connected to a web-based knowledge-based database that continuously works with experience values.
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48. A method of providing maintenance services at a plant, comprising the steps of:
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providing a manual of operating principles common to all plants; and
providing further information of operating principles common to all plants of a type of plant.
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50. A method of providing maintenance services at a plant, comprising the step of:
providing processes for addressing maintenance issues at the plant for each of a plurality of stages in a life of said plant. - View Dependent Claims (51, 52, 53)
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54. A method for providing maintenance services at a plant, comprising the step of:
providing a knowledge repository of information specific to plants of the type of said plant. - View Dependent Claims (55, 56, 57, 58, 59)
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