EQUIPMENT PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE SCHEDULING
First Claim
1. A method to schedule preventive maintenance on a unit of equipment, the method comprising:
- detecting, by one or more processors, an outage on a unit of equipment, wherein the outage is a result of a maintenance operation being performed on a first subcomponent of the unit of equipment;
determining, by one or more processors, that the maintenance operation is a superseding maintenance operation, wherein the superseding maintenance operation renders a first minor maintenance operation on the first subcomponent of the unit of equipment unnecessary for preventing a failure of the unit of equipment, and wherein the first minor maintenance operation is scheduled after the superseding maintenance operation;
identifying, by one or more processors, a first critical maintenance operation on the first subcomponent of the unit of equipment, wherein the first critical maintenance operation is scheduled after the superseding maintenance operation, and wherein failure to perform the first critical maintenance operation within a predefined period of time of the superseding maintenance operation has been predetermined to cause the unit of equipment to fail; and
performing the first critical maintenance operation, but not the first minor maintenance operation, while executing the superseding maintenance operation on the first subcomponent of the unit of equipment during the outage.
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Abstract
A method, system, and/or computer program product schedules preventive maintenance on a unit of equipment. An outage on a unit of equipment, which is the result of a maintenance operation being performed on a subcomponent of the unit of equipment, is detected. A determination is made that the maintenance operation is a superseding maintenance operation, which renders a subsequently scheduled minor maintenance operation on the subcomponent of the unit of equipment unnecessary. A critical maintenance operation on the subcomponent of the unit of equipment is also identified. Thus, the critical maintenance operation, but not the minor maintenance operation, is performed while executing the superseding maintenance operation on the subcomponent of the unit of equipment during the outage.
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7 Claims
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1. A method to schedule preventive maintenance on a unit of equipment, the method comprising:
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detecting, by one or more processors, an outage on a unit of equipment, wherein the outage is a result of a maintenance operation being performed on a first subcomponent of the unit of equipment; determining, by one or more processors, that the maintenance operation is a superseding maintenance operation, wherein the superseding maintenance operation renders a first minor maintenance operation on the first subcomponent of the unit of equipment unnecessary for preventing a failure of the unit of equipment, and wherein the first minor maintenance operation is scheduled after the superseding maintenance operation; identifying, by one or more processors, a first critical maintenance operation on the first subcomponent of the unit of equipment, wherein the first critical maintenance operation is scheduled after the superseding maintenance operation, and wherein failure to perform the first critical maintenance operation within a predefined period of time of the superseding maintenance operation has been predetermined to cause the unit of equipment to fail; and performing the first critical maintenance operation, but not the first minor maintenance operation, while executing the superseding maintenance operation on the first subcomponent of the unit of equipment during the outage. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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