INFRASTRUCTURE ASSET MANAGEMENT

• US 20120173300A1
• Filed: 01/03/2011
• Published: 07/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/24/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Davenport, Andrew J., Fenhagen, Frank D. IV, Hampapur, Arun, Jiang, Zhong Bo, Kalagnanam, Jayant R., Li, Hongfei, Mahatma, Shilpa N., Sun, Wei, Xie, Lexing, Dong, Wei Shan
• Granted Patent: US 9,311,615 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7.28
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0631 Resource planning, allocation, distributing or scheduling for enterprises or organisations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0635 Risk analysis of enterprise or organisation activities
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/20 Administration of product repair or maintenance
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass

Abstract

An approach for infrastructure asset management is provided. This approach comprises an end-to-end analytics driven maintenance approach that can take data about physical assets and additional external data, and apply advanced analytics to the data to generate business insight, foresight and planning information. Specifically, this approach uses a maintenance analysis tool, which is configured to: receive data about a set of physical assets of an infrastructure, and analyze the data about the set of physical assets to predict maintenance requirements for each of the set of physical assets. The maintenance analysis tool further comprises an output component configured to generate a maintenance plan based on the predicted maintenance requirements for each of the set of physical assets.

Claims

1. A method for infrastructure asset management, comprising:

receiving data about a set of physical assets of an infrastructure;

analyzing the data about the set of physical assets to predict maintenance requirements for each of the set of physical assets; and

generating a maintenance plan based on the analyzing.

2. The method according to claim 1, the data about the set of physical assets comprising at least one of the following:

failure data, maintenance data, usage data, weather data, graphical information system (GIS) data, and demographic data.

3. The method according to claim 1, the analyzing comprising at least one of the following analytics:

predictive modeling, optimization, and spatio-temporal analysis.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the analytics generates information about the set of physical assets, the information comprising at least one of the following:

failure association, maintenance prediction, event clustering, and usage forecasting.

5. The method according to claim 1, the generating comprising creating at least one of the following:

a work order schedule, and a maintenance route plan.

6. A system for infrastructure asset management comprising:

at least one processing unit;

memory operably associated with the at least one processing unit; and

a maintenance analysis tool storable in memory and executable by the at least one processing unit, the maintenance analysis tool comprising;

an analysis component configured to;

receive data about a set of physical assets of an infrastructure; and

analyze the data about the set of physical assets to predict maintenance requirements for each of the set of physical assets; and

an output component configured to;

generate a maintenance plan based on the analyzing.

7. The maintenance analysis tool according to claim 6, the data about the set of physical assets comprising at least one of the following:

failure data, maintenance data, usage data, weather data, graphical information system (GIS) data, and demographic data.

8. The maintenance analysis tool according to claim 6, the analysis component configured to perform at least one of the following analytics:

predictive modeling, optimization, and spatio-temporal analysis.

9. The maintenance analysis tool according to claim 6, the analysis component configured to generate information about the set of physical assets, the information comprising at least one of the following:

failure association, maintenance prediction, event clustering, and usage forecasting.

10. The maintenance analysis tool according to claim 6, the output component configured to create at least one of the following:

a work order schedule, and a maintenance route plan.

11. A computer program product for infrastructure asset management, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage media, and program instructions stored on the computer readable storage media, to:

receive data about a set of physical assets of an infrastructure;

analyze the data about the set of physical assets to predict maintenance requirements for each of the set of physical assets; and

generate a maintenance plan based on the predicted maintenance requirements for each of the set of physical assets.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, the data about the set of physical assets comprising at least one of the following:

failure data, maintenance data, usage data, weather data, graphical information system (GIS) data, and demographic data.

13. The computer program product of claim 11, further comprising program instructions stored on the computer readable storage media to perform at least one of the following analytics:

predictive modeling, optimization, and spatio-temporal analysis.

14. The computer program product of claim 11, further comprising program instructions stored on the computer readable storage media to generate information about the set of physical assets, the information comprising at least one of the following:

failure association, maintenance prediction, event clustering, and usage forecasting.

15. The computer program product of claim 11, further comprising program instructions stored on the computer readable storage media to create at least one of the following:

a work order schedule, and a maintenance route plan.

16. A method for deploying a system for infrastructure asset management, comprising:

providing a maintenance analysis tool within a computer infrastructure having functionality to;

receive data about a set of physical assets of an infrastructure;

analyze the data about the set of physical assets to predict maintenance requirements for each of the set of physical assets; and

generate a maintenance plan based on the predicted maintenance requirements for each of the set of physical assets.

17. The method of claim 16, the data about the set of physical assets comprising at least one of the following:

failure data, maintenance data, usage data, weather data, graphical information system (GIS) data, and demographic data.

18. The method of claim 16, the maintenance analysis tool within the computer infrastructure further having functionality to perform at least one of the following analytics:

predictive modeling, optimization, and spatio-temporal analysis.

19. The method of claim 16, the maintenance analysis tool within the computer infrastructure further having functionality to generate information about the set of physical assets, the information comprising at least one of the following:

failure association, maintenance prediction, event clustering, and usage forecasting.

20. The method of claim 16, the maintenance analysis tool within the computer infrastructure further having functionality to create at least one of the following:

a work order schedule, and a maintenance route plan.