Electronic maintenance record file system for equipment such as a elevators
First Claim
1. A system for remote maintenance management of equipment by a maintenance company, said system comprising local monitoring units fixedly installed near and dedicated to at least one piece of said equipment, and a maintenance company calculator connected to said local monitoring units by means of a transmission network, each of said local monitoring units comprising:
- monitoring means for real-time detecting and processing of failures occurring in said at least one piece of equipment to which the local monitoring unit is dedicated, identification means for identifying a technician when starting an operation on the dedicated piece of said equipment, command means for allowing said maintenance technician identified using identification means, to signal a start and end of said event of said operation on the dedicated piece of said equipment, time stamping means for time stamping said start and end events, data entry means for introducing data describing work done during said operation performed by said identified technician, and data storage means for storing in the form of an electronic maintenance record file said data describing work done during said operation on the dedicated piece of equipment in relation with identification of the technician and timestamp information of the start and end events of the operation.
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Abstract
An electronic maintenance record file system for facilities comprising local monitoring units, installed near the equipment to be maintained, a calculator made available to the maintenance company and connected to the local units using a transmission network to receive and process the information transmitted by the local units. Each local unit comprises identification resources of the technician in charge of maintaining the associated equipment; time stamping resources of the start and end of each operation performed by the technician; data input resources of the description of the work performed during the technician'"'"'s operation; and storage resources for storing, in the form of an electronic maintenance report file, the description of each operation performed on the associated equipment in relation with the identification information of the technician that performed the operation and the time stamp information of the start and end of the operation.
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1. A system for remote maintenance management of equipment by a maintenance company, said system comprising local monitoring units fixedly installed near and dedicated to at least one piece of said equipment, and a maintenance company calculator connected to said local monitoring units by means of a transmission network, each of said local monitoring units comprising:
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monitoring means for real-time detecting and processing of failures occurring in said at least one piece of equipment to which the local monitoring unit is dedicated, identification means for identifying a technician when starting an operation on the dedicated piece of said equipment, command means for allowing said maintenance technician identified using identification means, to signal a start and end of said event of said operation on the dedicated piece of said equipment, time stamping means for time stamping said start and end events, data entry means for introducing data describing work done during said operation performed by said identified technician, and data storage means for storing in the form of an electronic maintenance record file said data describing work done during said operation on the dedicated piece of equipment in relation with identification of the technician and timestamp information of the start and end events of the operation. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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