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Methods for producing customer configurable technical manuals

  • US 9,715,658 B2
  • Filed: 02/28/2014
  • Issued: 07/25/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for automatically generating a maintainer useable troubleshooting tree from content of a digitally stored fault model of a complex system in real time, the method comprising:

  • for a specific corrective action, retrieve, by a processor, failure modes associated with the corrective action from a fault model of the complex system;

    receive, by a processor, symptoms in real time from sensors monitoring the complex system;

    generate, by a processor, a symptom pattern and an associated symptom hash from the received symptoms;

    for the symptom pattern, create, by a processor, an ambiguity group of failure modes from the retrieved failure modes;

    retrieve, by a processor, repair procedures and test procedures related to the ambiguity group of failure modes from the fault model;

    create, by a processor, a troubleshooting tree for the ambiguity group of failure modes by ranking each repair procedure and test procedure;

    retrieve, by a processor, technical references encountered while creating the trouble shooting tree; and

    compile and render, by a processor, the troubleshooting tree and the references into a user perceivable document based on a standard technical manual skeleton data structure configured to record the trouble shooting tree and the references, wherein when a first hash value and a first symptom pattern of a first failure mode are both identical to a second symptom pattern and a second hash value of a second failure mode, the method further comprises changing a delimiting character of one of the first and second symptom patterns.

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