System and method for evaluating maintenance costs of products
First Claim
1. A method to learn behavior of maintenance costs of products and determine maintenance costs of products, using a learning database containing product characteristics maintenance agreement conditions and maintenance costs associated therewith, comprising the steps of:
- selecting at least one product characteristic from said learning database;
determining, from said learning database, first maintenance cost estimations associated with modalities of said at least one product characteristic and building a first table storing the modalities and said first maintenance cost estimations associated therewith;
selecting at least one maintenance agreement condition of said learning database; and
, specifying values of said at least one maintenance agreement condition, determining maintenance cost correction coefficients associated with said specified values and building a second table storing said specified values and said maintenance cost correction coefficients associated therewith;
wherein said first and second tables characterize maintenance cost behavior of products contained in said learning database.
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Abstract
A method and system to evaluate the maintenance costs of products, having learning and application phases. Each phase is divided into two steps. The first analyzes product characteristics. The second is based on maintenance agreement conditions. During the first step of the learning phase, a first maintenance cost is estimated over the domain of a first variable representing product characteristics. Correction coefficients, based on other product characteristics, may be estimated to improve the first maintenance cost estimation. During the second step new correction coefficients are estimated according to maintenance agreement conditions. During the application phase, a first maintenance cost estimation is done according to the modality of the first variable, and adjusted depending on other product characteristics and maintenance agreement conditions.
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1. A method to learn behavior of maintenance costs of products and determine maintenance costs of products, using a learning database containing product characteristics maintenance agreement conditions and maintenance costs associated therewith, comprising the steps of:
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selecting at least one product characteristic from said learning database;
determining, from said learning database, first maintenance cost estimations associated with modalities of said at least one product characteristic and building a first table storing the modalities and said first maintenance cost estimations associated therewith;
selecting at least one maintenance agreement condition of said learning database; and
,specifying values of said at least one maintenance agreement condition, determining maintenance cost correction coefficients associated with said specified values and building a second table storing said specified values and said maintenance cost correction coefficients associated therewith;
wherein said first and second tables characterize maintenance cost behavior of products contained in said learning database. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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