Lubrication program management system and methods

• US 8,126,840 B2
• Filed: 10/22/2007
• Issued: 02/28/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Noria Corp.
• Original Assignee: Noria Corp.
• Inventors: Davis, Adam M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Chbouki, Tarek
• Application Number:
  US11/876,544
• Publication Number:
  US 20090106227A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,590 Days
• Field of Search: 707/951
• US Class Current: 707/608
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

A system for scheduling a plurality of selected maintenance tasks. The system comprises one or more storage media and a processor. The one or more storage media store data indicative of a plurality of maintenance points, a plurality of task templates, and a plurality of maintenance task definitions as associations between maintenance points and task templates. At least one maintenance point has a plurality of maintenance point parameters and is associated with at least one task template having a plurality of task parameters, such that upon accessing at least one of the maintenance task definitions, such maintenance task definition is dynamically generated from the plurality of maintenance point parameters of the at least one maintenance point and from the plurality of task parameters of the at least one task template. The processor selectively applies one or more queries to the stored data to generate an assignment including one or more selected maintenance tasks. The one or more queries have a plurality of filter criteria and a plurality of logical relationships defined between the filter criteria to selectively include maintenance task definitions matching the one or more queries and exclude maintenance task definitions not matching the one or more queries. The system further comprises at least one means for outputting the generated assignment.

Claims

1. A system for scheduling a plurality of selected user performable maintenance tasks, comprising:

one or more storage media storing data indicative of a plurality of maintenance points, a plurality of task templates, and a plurality of maintenance task definitions as associations between maintenance points and task templates, two or more maintenance points having a plurality of maintenance point parameters and are each associated with at least one task template having a plurality of task parameters, such that upon any of the two or more maintenance task definitions being accessed, such maintenance task definition is dynamically generated from the plurality of maintenance point parameters of the at least one maintenance point and from the plurality of task parameters of the at least one task template;

a processor selectively applying one or more queries to the stored data to generate a user perceivable assignment including one or more selected user performable maintenance tasks, the one or more queries having a plurality of filter criteria and a plurality of logical relationships defined between the filter criteria to selectively include maintenance task definitions matching the one or more queries and exclude maintenance task definitions not matching the one or more queries; and

at least one means for outputting the assignment to a user, in a user perceivable format.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein one or more of the task templates are globally-defined, such that changes to the one or more globally-defined task templates are reflected in all of the maintenance task definitions associated with the respective globally-defined task templates.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

one or more means for permitting a user to selectively define one or more queries by selecting a plurality of filter criteria and a plurality of logical relationships between the filter criteria,

the one or more queries corresponding to one or more parameters associated with one or more maintenance task definitions to be selectively included or excluded by the one or more queries;

and for permitting the user to selectively store the one or more queries to be selectively accessible.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein at least a portion of the plurality of maintenance point parameters are associated with the at least one maintenance point in a hierarchical fashion,

and wherein the plurality of task parameters are associated with the at least one task template in an hierarchical fashion.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one of the one or more queries includes a virtual hierarchy.