Method for determining the time and extent of maintenance operations
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Abstract
In a method for defining the time and scope of maintenance operations for a system having a plurality of maintenance items, each of which should be carried out within an assigned tolerance range, a minimum maintenance interval between successive maintenance operations is predefined. The timing of a maintenance operation is predictively fixed at at least that tolerance range end point which is the first of the tolerance range end points of maintenance items relating to maintenance times to follow the time of a preceding maintenance operation while complying with the minimum maintenance interval. At least those maintenance operations whose tolerance range end points occur before the predicted subsequent maintenance time are defined as the scope of the imminent maintenance operation.
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6 Claims
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1-3. -3. (canceled)
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4. A method for determining timing and scope of maintenance operations for a system having a plurality of maintenance items, said method comprising:
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predefining associated maintenance intervals and tolerance ranges for implementing the maintenance items; and
predefining a minimum maintenance interval between an imminent maintenance operation and a subsequent maintenance operation;
wherein,a time for a respective subsequent maintenance operation is predictively fixed, at the latest, at a tolerance range end point which is occurs first among tolerance range end points of maintenance items having associated maintenance times, following the time of a preceding maintenance operation, while complying with the minimum maintenance interval; and
at least those maintenance items whose tolerance range end points occur before the predicted subsequent maintenance time are designated as maintenance items to be carried out during the imminent maintenance operation. - View Dependent Claims (5, 6)
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