Process and system for verifying the maintenance condition

• US 20030125980A1
• Filed: 12/20/2002
• Published: 07/03/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tevec Technologia de Verificacao Do Estado de Conservacao S/C LTDA, Tevec Tecnologia De Verificacao Do Estada De Conservacao S/C Ltda.
• Original Assignee: Tevec Technologia de Verificacao Do Estado de Conservacao S/C LTDA
• Inventors: Ribeiro, Jose Guilherme Whitaker
• Application Number:
  US10/324,676
• Publication Number:
  US 20030125980A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/20 Administration of product repair or maintenance

Abstract

The invention refers to a innovator process and system for verifying the maintenance condition of used goods, based on QFD—Quality Function Deployment and WBS Work Breakdown Structure techniques, which produces understandable reports specially designed and intended to furnish information to users and potential buyers, who do not need to be technicians in the area relative to the specific good.

In the present invention, these methodologies are applied in the innovating verification and analysis process of the condition of used goods, such as vehicles, machines, properties, etc.

Claims

1. ) process for verifying the maintenance condition, applied on used goods, characterised by comprising the following steps:

Analysis of the Good'"'"'s Category

Establishing the Table of Hierarchized Qualities

Defining the Quality Gauge

Assembling the Correlation Matrix

Establishing the Evaluation Grades

Establishing the Verifying Preliminary Procedures

Adjustments for Establishing the Verifying Standardized Procedure

Establishing Interfaces with the Database and the Result Weighing and Report Issuing Software.

2. ) PROCESS FOR VERIFYING THE MAINTENANCE CONDITION, applied on used goods, according to claim 1, characterised by, in the step of analysis of the good'"'"'s category, it being initially verified and analysed from the point of view of the perspective of repetitive similar inspections.

3. ) PROCESS FOR VERIFYING THE MAINTENANCE CONDITION, applied on used goods, according to claim 2, characterised by comprising a verifying standardised procedure, when the repetition is frequent.

4. ) PROCESS FOR VERIFYING THE MAINTENANCE CONDITION, applied on used goods, according to claim 1, characterised by the step of Establishing the Table of Hierarchized Qualities comprising:

surveys to gather the characteristics and qualities desired made with a previously defined public

defining the presentation of qualities desired for the good being offered

deploying the characteristics or qualities from the first level to the successive ones

defining the relative hierarchy, from relative importance degree of each one of the characteristics

consolidating the qualities in a table so that they are immediately visible and understandable

process review.

5. ) PROCESS FOR VERIFYING THE MAINTENANCE CONDITION, applied on used goods, according to claim 1, characterised by the step of Quality Gauge comprising:

analysing the table of hierarchized qualities

defining the work breakdown structure of the good

establishing the structure breakdown level

analysing the good'"'"'s failure modes and consequences

defining the good'"'"'s type critical components

final definition of the checklist to be used as quality gauge.

6. ) PROCESS FOR VERIFYING THE MAINTENANCE CONDITION, applied on used goods, according to claim 1, characterised by the step Assembling the Correlation Matrix comprising:

assembling the Quality Matrix

placing the correlations between each one of the desired qualities and the various quality measurements (quality gauge) in the matrix body

assigning the correlation levels (strong, average, weak or non-existent) and the convenient numerical values to these levels

establishing the gauge hierarchization.

7. ) PROCESS FOR VERIFYING THE MAINTENANCE CONDITION, applied on used goods, according to claim 1, characterised by the step of Establishing the Evaluation Grades comprising:

weighing the assigned grade, by means of the relative importance level of the respective measure

obtaining, in a second process of correlation between the gauge (checklist items) and the work breakdown structure, of the evaluation grades from the various component systems of the good (or system functions)

establishing the indicative grade of the maintenance condition of each one of the systems that compose the good and, based on these, the overall evaluation grade of the good in question

establishing the repair cost of the good being verified.

8. ) PROCESS FOR VERIFYING THE MAINTENANCE CONDITION, applied on used goods, according to claim 1, characterised by the step of Establishing a Verifying Pilot Procedure comprising:

establishing a pilot procedure for the inspections that reflect the most convenient dynamics for the good'"'"'s inspection

testing the pilot procedure

processing the results obtained in the initial verifications, applying the weights defined by the gauge hierarchization

obtaining the final values of the maintenance condition of the good verified.

9. ) PROCESS FOR VERIFYING THE MAINTENANCE CONDITION, applied on used goods, according to claim 1, characterised by the step of Adjusting the Model and Establishing the Verification Standardised Procedure comprising:

adjusting the dynamics of the inspection and the gauges of the qualities, resulting in new correlations and review of the Inspection Procedure

standardising the verifying schedule and all the methods described in steps 2 to 6.

10. ) PROCESS FOR VERIFYING THE MAINTENANCE CONDITION, applied on used goods, according to claim 1, characterised by the step of Establishing Interfaces with a the Database and the of Result Weighing and Report Issuing Software comprising:

transforming the results of each verification into images and graphic representations in the format of tables, drawings, simulation and codes understandable to the user

presenting the final reports via Internet, or printed on paper or on any other equivalent means

feeding the database with informative standards of tables and fields to be filled in.

calculating the grades of the maintenance condition of the functional groups and the good verified.

11. ) PROCESS FOR VERIFYING THE MAINTENANCE CONDITION, applied on used goods, according to claim 1, characterised by comprising:

software for transforming the results of the verifications into images and graphic representations on the format of tables, drawings, simulations and codes understandable to the user.

software for issuing the final reports presented via Internet, or printed on paper or on any other equivalent means.

database linked directly to this software that feeds it with table informative standards and fields to be filled in.

verification database, which enters them in the software that calculates the maintenance condition grades of the functional groups and the good verified.