Equipment documentation management system, method, and software tools
First Claim
1. A method for managing a set of documentation relating to assets used in a plant, the method comprising:
- generating a list of documents at least in part through access to stored data in an asset management system used by the plant, the documents relating to the plant assets;
aggregating electronic versions of all or some of the selected documents in the list;
converting the aggregated electronic documents into structured documents having a number of categorized document elements; and
coordinating processing of the categorized document elements in accordance with predetermined criteria.
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Abstract
Methods, software tools and systems are provided for facilitating management of equipment data and documentation in plants. Data on plant equipment is extracted from plant enterprise resource planning or similar systems and formed into a structured hierarchical tree. The tree relates to a database which acts as a template of the data and documents expected to be associated with the equipment Auditors use this data structure to audit the equipment collect documents and generate electronic versions of the documents. An assessor tool allows plants to select and parse the documents into elements such as diagrams, bills of materials, text, etc., and to select how these elements are to be processed. The assessed content is uploaded to a conversion network which manages a network of vendors who perform the processing in accordance with a workflow controlled by the conversion network. The processed structured content is reaggregated and indexed in the equipment tree. An equipment data and documentation database is returned to the plant, made available for viewing and manipulation using a software tool by those needing access to the information, and may be integrated with the plant'"'"'s enterprise resource planning system and matched with inventory using SKU matching.
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50 Claims
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1. A method for managing a set of documentation relating to assets used in a plant, the method comprising:
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generating a list of documents at least in part through access to stored data in an asset management system used by the plant, the documents relating to the plant assets;
aggregating electronic versions of all or some of the selected documents in the list;
converting the aggregated electronic documents into structured documents having a number of categorized document elements; and
coordinating processing of the categorized document elements in accordance with predetermined criteria. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A method for supporting management a set of documentation relating to assets used in a plant, the method comprising:
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providing a first software module for accessing stored data in an asset management system used by the plant and generating a list of documents to be collected;
providing a second software module for facilitating aggregation of electronic versions of all or some of the documents in the list; and
providing a third software module for facilitating selection of document elements within each of the aggregated electronic documents and association of the selected document elements with a plurality of categories to thereby generate a set of categorized document elements configured to be converted into structured documents. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16)
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17. A method for managing a set of electronic documents relating to assets used in a plant, the method comprising:
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using a software tool to convert the electronic documents into structured documents having a number of document elements categorized according to one of a plurality of processing techniques to be applied on the document elements;
transmitting the categorized document elements to a conversion network; and
the conversion network coordinating processing of the categorized document elements in accordance with the processing techniques. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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28. A method for managing a set of electronic documents relating to assets used in a plant, the method comprising:
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converting the electronic documents into structured documents having a number of categorized document elements;
transmitting the categorized document elements to a network configured to coordinate entities each capable of performing one or more specific processing tasks; and
receiving processed document elements from the network. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 40, 41, 42, 43)
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31. A method for managing a set of documentation relating to assets used in a plant, the method comprising:
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generating a list of documents at least in part through access to stored data in an asset management system used by the plant, the documents relating to the plant assets;
aggregating electronic versions of all or some of the selected documents in the list;
converting the aggregated electronic documents into structured documents having a number of categorized document elements; and
transmitting the categorized document elements to a network configured to coordinate entities each capable of performing one or more specific processing tasks. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39)
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44. A computer readable medium storing program code representing one or more software modules which, when executed on a computer, cause the computer to perform a method for managing a set of electronic documents relating to assets used in a plant, the method comprising:
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converting the electronic documents into structured documents having a number of document elements categorized according to one of a plurality of processing techniques to be applied on the document elements;
transmitting the categorized document elements to a conversion network configured to coordinate processing of the categorized document elements in accordance with the processing techniques; and
receiving the processed document elements from the conversion network. - View Dependent Claims (45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50)
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