SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEFINING THE FREQUENCY OF PRODUCT MAINTENANCE

• US 20080103735A1
• Filed: 10/27/2006
• Published: 05/01/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Incorporated (Siemens AG)
• Original Assignee: Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Incorporated (Siemens AG)
• Inventors: Bradley, Mark, Richmond, Mark, Morenc, Roger
• Application Number:
  US11/553,874
• Publication Number:
  US 20080103735A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 703/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

A system, method, and computer program for defining a maintenance frequency of a product, comprising the steps of building a frequency expression for a product element based on a frequency expression language; and associating an action with said frequency expression and appropriate means and computer-readable instructions.

Claims

1. A method for defining a maintenance frequency of a product, comprising the steps of:

building a frequency expression for a product element based on a frequency expression language; and

associating an action with said frequency expression.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said building step is done in a stepwise manner.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of reviewing said frequency expression by a user for accuracy.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of determining when a maintenance operation is required.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein said determining step is based on said frequency expression and a current product age.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of defining a frequency expression language.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein said frequency expression language is for maintenance operations.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein said frequency expression language is applicable to product element maintenance.

9. A computer-program product tangibly embodied in a machine readable medium to perform a method for defining a maintenance frequency of a product, comprising:

instructions for building a frequency expression for a product element based on a frequency expression language; and

instructions for associating a product element with said frequency expression.

10. The computer-program product of claim 9, wherein said building step is done in a stepwise manner.

11. The computer-program product of claim 9, further comprising instructions for the step of reviewing said frequency expression by a user for accuracy.

12. The computer-program product of claim 9, further comprising instructions for the step of determining when a maintenance operation is required.

13. The computer-program product of claim 12, wherein instructions for the step of said determining is based on said frequency expression and a current product age.

14. The computer-program product of claim 9, further comprising instructions for the step of defining a frequency expression language.

15. The computer-program product of claim 14, wherein said frequency expression language is for maintenance operations.

16. The computer-program product of claim 14, wherein said frequency expression language is applicable to product element maintenance.

17. A data processing system having at least a processor and accessible memory to implement a method for defining a maintenance frequency of a product, comprising:

means for building a frequency expression for a product element based on a frequency expression language having a maintenance grammar; and

means for associating an action with said frequency expression.

18. The data processing system of claim 17, said maintenance grammar is implemented in BNF.

19. A data processing system having at least a processor and accessible memory to implement a method for defining a maintenance frequency of a product, comprising:

means for defining a frequency expression language.

20. The data processing system of claim 19, wherein said means is applicable to product element maintenance.