ORC online inventory management system
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1. An inventory management system comprising:
- at least one piece of equipment;
a plurality of components within said piece of equipment, each of said components having an expected lifetime;
a computational element operatively coupled to said equipment;
an inventory of replacement parts for said components contained within said computational element; and
a mechanism for tracking said inventory by recording a total of said expected lifetime of said components within said inventory.
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Abstract
An inventory management system and method that allows an operator to manage an inventory for a system that has at least one piece of serviceable equipment with a plurality of replaceable components, wherein each of the replaceable components has an expected lifetime based on a predetermined criteria which the inventory management system observes via an inventory tracking system that uses parameters of expected use and predicted remaining life of the replaceable components to determine and manage the inventory.
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36 Claims
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1. An inventory management system comprising:
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at least one piece of equipment;
a plurality of components within said piece of equipment, each of said components having an expected lifetime;
a computational element operatively coupled to said equipment;
an inventory of replacement parts for said components contained within said computational element; and
a mechanism for tracking said inventory by recording a total of said expected lifetime of said components within said inventory. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A method for inventory management comprising the steps of:
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providing at least one piece of serviceable equipment item that has a plurality of replaceable components, and also providing an inventory of said replaceable components;
assigning a predetermined life span to each of said replaceable components within said serviceable piece of equipment;
creating a tracking system for said inventory; and
managing said inventory using said tracking system. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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