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Method of managing maintenance and maintenance managing apparatus

  • US 7,328,133 B2
  • Filed: 08/18/2006
  • Issued: 02/05/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2003
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A maintenance managing apparatus for a plant, comprising:

  • structural member grouping means for grouping structural members of the plant on the basis of likeness criterion of a predetermined operation status into a plurality of groups; and

    index member setting means for setting an index member to be inspected at at least a part of at least one of the structural members belonging to each group, the index member having a higher degradation tendency than the other structural members in the group, wherein index member setting means comprises;

    predicting means for predicting degradation of the structural members belonging to each group based on design information of the structural members to estimate the degradation tendencies; and

    selecting means for selecting the at least one of the structural members from a part of the structural members having a high degradation tendency in each group on the basis of the result of predicting the degradation.

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