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CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT FOR A FLEET OF EQUIPMENT UNITS

  • US 20120016702A1
  • Filed: 06/06/2011
  • Published: 01/19/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/04/2010
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A configuration management method for configuration management of a fleet of deployed equipment units, each unit comprising one or more components and each unit being provided with an on-board data processing module and a data storage module in a local service platform system being communicatively coupled to a central service platform system, comprising for said equipments units of said fleet performing the steps of:

  • a. generating, in a local service platform system associated with an equipment unit, condition based operational status data for each component in a selection of one or more components of said equipment unit, comprising;

    receiving equipment operational status data for each of said components;

    receiving environmental status data;

    calculating weighting parameters dependent on an experience based status data collection and environmental status data and dependent on predetermined relations between said experience based status data collection and said environmental status data;

    adjusting equipment operational status data dependent on said weighting parameters and dependent on predetermined relations between said equipment operational status data and said weighting parameters into condition based operational status data;

    b. generating in said local service platform system operational data comprising said condition based operational status data;

    c. communicating said operational status data from said local service platform system to said central service platform system;

    d. generating by means of a local configuration manager software a definition of the configuration of components in an equipment unit by receiving, in a local service platform system associated with the equipment unit, a component identification and/or type code for each of said components from a machine readable identification device associated with each said component;

    e. storing said configuration definition in a configuration definition data structure of said local service platform system;

    f. communicating the configuration definition to said central service platform system;

    g. analyzing configuration definitions for said fleet of equipment units dependent on said operational data generated in the local platform system of the respective equipment units and communicated to the central service platform system.

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