System and method for remote inbound vehicle inspection
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1. A method of reducing the shop time of an inbound railroad locomotive at a locomotive maintenance facility, with the locomotive having onboard operating data gathering systems, comprising:
- providing a historical data base of locomotive operating data for similar locomotives;
gathering locomotive operating data with said onboard data gathering systems during operation of said inbound locomotive, prior to arrival of said inbound locomotive at a locomotive maintenance facility for scheduled maintenance;
prior to arrival of said inbound locomotive at said maintenance facility, comparing said onboard operating data with said historical data base to determine maintenance and repair operations to be performed when said inbound locomotive arrives at said maintenance facility, said maintenance and repair operations being based on the condition of said inbound locomotive; and
providing information indicative of said maintenance and repair operations to said maintenance facility before said inbound locomotive arrives at said maintenance facility.
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Abstract
A system and method for reducing the shop time of a vehicle, e.g., a locomotive, at a maintenance facility by obtaining onboard systems parameter data during a period when the vehicle is inbound to the maintenance facility for required periodic scheduled maintenance, and by determining, at the maintenance facility and prior to arrival of the vehicle at the maintenance facility, from the data received from the inbound vehicle, whether any of the data is out of a predetermined range or is trending to be out of range.
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1. A method of reducing the shop time of an inbound railroad locomotive at a locomotive maintenance facility, with the locomotive having onboard operating data gathering systems, comprising:
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providing a historical data base of locomotive operating data for similar locomotives; gathering locomotive operating data with said onboard data gathering systems during operation of said inbound locomotive, prior to arrival of said inbound locomotive at a locomotive maintenance facility for scheduled maintenance; prior to arrival of said inbound locomotive at said maintenance facility, comparing said onboard operating data with said historical data base to determine maintenance and repair operations to be performed when said inbound locomotive arrives at said maintenance facility, said maintenance and repair operations being based on the condition of said inbound locomotive; and providing information indicative of said maintenance and repair operations to said maintenance facility before said inbound locomotive arrives at said maintenance facility. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A system for reducing the shop time of an inbound railroad locomotive at a locomotive maintenance facility, comprising:
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a plurality of data gathering systems onboard an inbound locomotive, said data gathering systems being adapted to gather onboard locomotive operating data during operation of said inbound locomotive, prior to arrival of said inbound locomotive at a locomotive maintenance facility for scheduled maintenance; a historical data base of locomotive operating data from a plurality of similar locomotives; data comparison software adapted to compare said onboard operating data from said inbound locomotive with said historical data base prior to arrival of said locomotive at said maintenance facility, to determine any maintenance and repair operations to be performed when said inbound locomotive arrives at said maintenance facility, said maintenance and repair operations being based on the condition of said inbound locomotive; and a communication system adapted to transmit information indicative of said maintenance and repair operations to said maintenance facility prior to arrival of said inbound locomotive at said maintenance facility. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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