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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120072175 | PROCESS FOR MAPPING OFF-SITE PIPING SYSTEMS IN A REFINERY AND/OR PETROCHEMICAL FACILITY AND A SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING EMERGENCY ISOLATION AND RESPONSE IN A REFINERY AND/OR PETROCHEMICAL FACILITY A process of mapping piping systems associated with a refinery and petrochemical facilities is disclosed, which maps piping systems, which interconnect facility operating units with other operating units, utilities, distribution facilities and storage units. A system fo... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120046911 | HANDHELD FIELD MAINTENANCE TOOL WITH INTEGRATION TO EXTERNAL SOFTWARE APPLICATION An intrinsically-safe handheld field maintenance tool is provided. The tool includes a process communication module configured to communicate with a field device in accordance with a process industry communication protocol. A controller is coupled to the process communi... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120041716 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MAINTENANCE OPTIMIZATION A method for monitoring an operation of a plurality of devices is provided. The method includes receiving, from each of the plurality of devices, a signal representative of a parameter indicative of a current condition of a respective device, comparing each of the param... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120025529 | System and Methods for Monitoring Oil Conditions of a Wind Turbine Gearbox A method for monitoring the condition of oil contained within a gearbox of a wind turbine is disclosed. The method generally includes receiving a signal corresponding to a measurement of an oil parameter of the gearbox, comparing the measurement to a predetermined limit... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120029875 | MONITORING UNIT FOR THE OPERATION OF CONTROL CABINET DEVICES A monitoring unit for the operation of control cabinet devices, particularly a climate control device, having a detection unit for operating state data of the control cabinet devices, a monitoring unit including an analysis unit, and a display unit for displaying inform... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120029876 | MAINTENANCE EXPERT SYSTEM FOR MEASURING INSTRUMENT Provided is a measuring instrument for measuring an object to be measured, including: a CPU (9) including a plurality of internal timer counters and having a function of calculating a measured value of the object to be measured based on detection values of variou... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20110313728 | Fuel-Injector-Replacement Determining Device A fuel-injector-replacement device obtains a learning value of characteristic data of an injector while an engine is running. The learning value stored in an ECU is updated into the learning value. When the engine is stopped, the characteristic data stored in an INJ-EEP... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110313726 | CONDITION-BASED MAINTENANCE SYSTEM FOR WIND TURBINES A condition-based maintenance system having instrumentation for collecting data from one or more wind turbines and having a performance monitor for analyzing the data. Also, the system may have a wind turbine anomaly detector. Information from the performance monitor an... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110295559 | MAINTENANCE OF INTELLIGENT ASSETS A work performance acquisition module of an intelligent assets maintenance system obtains work performance data of intelligent assets from a device operation production control system. A status monitoring module obtains operation status data of the intelligent assets. A... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110295558 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING FAULTS IN A BRUSHLESS EXCITER FOR A GENERATOR A method and system is provided for operating an electrical machine. The method includes the steps of, providing a brushless excitation system including a diode rectifier having at least one diode, sensing heat energy generated by at least one resistor connected in para... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110282630 | REMOTE MONITORING OF MACHINE ALARMS Methods for monitoring a machine are described. In one aspect, a method includes receiving information on a plurality of events associated with the machine, determining a severity value for at least one event of the plurality of events, the severity value based on at le... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110259333 | Ventilation System With System Status Display For Maintenance And Service Information The disclosure describes a novel approach for displaying information on a ventilator system. The disclosure describes a novel respiratory system including a removable primary display and system status display. Further, the disclosure describes a novel method for display... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110238374 | Power Line Maintenance Monitoring Maintenance monitoring may be provided. First, a plurality of status data respectively corresponding to a plurality of components on a power line may be collected. Then the collected plurality of status data may be analyzed to determine when a one of the collected plura... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110238375 | FIELD DEVICE MAINTENANCE APPARATUS A field device maintenance apparatus includes a field device connection unit that communicates with a field device whose operation contents are defined by parameters; a work-information acquisition unit that acquires parameter attribute information including whether or ... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110218957 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING DIAGNOSTIC SERVICES A request to diagnose a problem with an appliance is provided to a diagnostic system whereupon the diagnostic system functions to interpret the information indicative of the problem with the appliance to thereby normalize the information indicative of the problem with t... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110213590 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPERATING A WIND TURBINE The Disclosure relates to a method for operating a wind turbine comprising: (a) monitoring a wind turbine including: receiving at least one value of at least one sensor and comparing the at least one value with at least one reference; and, determining depending on the c... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110196621 | Method of Maintaining a Pipeline A method of maintaining a pipeline, including estimating a corrosion rate of a pipeline segment, is provided. The method includes analyzing a first data set obtained by inspecting the pipeline segment at a first time and a second data set obtained by inspecting the pipe... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110178772 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING A TURBOJET ENGINE A method and a system for monitoring a turbojet engine. The method acquires a signal representative of a vibratory level of an operating rotor of the turbojet engine, acquires a rotation speed of the rotor during operation, compares the amplitude of the signal with at l... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110153275 | Device for Detecting Contamination Level of Operating Oil A contamination level determination system for hydraulic oil is provided with a pilot filter arranged in a line of a hydraulic circuit of a hydraulic working machine to remove, from the hydraulic oil, foreign matter of particle sizes that may cause an operation failure ... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110144949 | SYSTEM FOR REAL TIME SUPERVISION OF COMPONENT WEAR IN A WIND TURBINE POPULATION A system for scheduling maintenance of a component in a wind turbine. The system receives signals from each of the wind turbines in a population of wind turbines. From the signals, the system detects a failure of the component in one of the wind turbine. In response to ... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110137827 | Irrigation water management system The efficiency of an irrigation system on a property is determined as a difference between the actual water usage at a property and the irrigation water need of the plant on the property. Data for the property are received including at least the location and irrigation ... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110137711 | DETECTING ANOMALIES IN FIELD FAILURE DATA A method of detecting anomalies in the service repairs data of equipment. A failure mode-symptom correlation matrix correlates failure modes to symptoms. Diagnostic trouble codes are collected for an actual repair for the equipment. The diagnostic trouble codes are prov... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110137587 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING ROLLERS FOR CONVEYORS The present invention at directed to systems and methods for monitoring a conveyor having a plurality of rollers spaced along the conveyer for supporting a conveyer belt. The system includes a plurality of roller monitors and a remote monitor. The roller monitors are lo... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110137697 | AUTOMATED CORRECTIVE AND PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE SYSTEM A method and system for automated corrective and predictive maintenance is described herein. In one embodiment, a failure notification associated with a tool is received, wherein the failure notification indicates one or more failure events for the tool. Maintenance dat... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110131003 | Vibration logging in computers The invention relates to a process and a monitoring device for monitoring an equipment unit, carried out by a processing device in the monitoring device. The process comprises reading at least one sensor signal and determining, on the basis of the at least one sensor si... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110106499 | METHOD FOR DETECTING STATUSES OF COMPONENTS OF SEMICONDUCTOR EQUIPMENT AND ASSOCIATED APPARATUS An apparatus for detecting an operational status of a semiconductor equipment includes an audio frequency signal receiving unit and an analysis and determination unit. The audio frequency signal receiving unit is used for receiving an audio frequency signal from the sem... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110106463 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING THE DELIVERY VOLUME OF AN INJECTION PUMP By detecting the pressure time characteristic on the high-pressure side of an injection pump, the delivery volume of the pump is able to be determined without intervention in the injection system.... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110093157 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTING A MAINTENANCE OPERATION There is provided a method of selecting a maintenance operation to be performed on a device. An exemplary method comprises determining a health parameter for the device, the health parameter being predictive of a probability of failure of the device based on archival da... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110088374 | TELEMETRY-BASED REGENERATION STRATEGY FOR AN ENGINE EXHAUST AFTER-TREATMENT DEVICE A method for timing performance of a maintenance function, in particular the timing of regeneration of a diesel particulate filter (22) to conserve fuel as a motor vehicle (10) travels along a projected travel route. Certain road data about roads in a road... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110087387 | Platform Health Monitoring System A method and apparatus are present for monitoring a platform. Information from monitoring the platform is received from a sensor network and a number of systems associated with the platform. A plurality of observations is formed from the information. A profile is create... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110066401 | SYSTEM FOR AND METHOD OF MONITORING AND DIAGNOSING THE PERFORMANCE OF PHOTOVOLTAIC OR OTHER RENEWABLE POWER PLANTS Energy converters are monitored to ensure that they are operating at acceptable levels. An expected output is predicted using mathematical modeling and compared to the actual output generated by the energy converter. When the difference is above a predetermined threshol... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110054842 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING CALIBRATED CONDENSER UNIT IN REFRIGERANT-CYCLE SYSTEM A real-time monitoring system that monitors various aspects of the operation of a refrigerant-cycle system is described. In one embodiment, the system includes a processor that measures power provided to the refrigerant-cycle system and that gathers data from one or mor... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110010132 | METHOD FOR EVALUATING EFFICACY OF PREVENTION MAINTENANCE FOR A TOOL A method for evaluating efficacy of prevention maintenance for a tool includes the steps of: choosing a tool which has been maintained preventively and choosing a productive parameter of the tool; collecting values of the productive parameter generated from the tool dur... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20100312403 | MOSQUITO MISTING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING SAME Embodiments described herein comprise an apparatus and method for controlling and monitoring a mosquito misting system. The apparatus includes a chemical reservoir, a delivery system, a spray system, one or more sensors, a communication network and a misting management ... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100312522 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING SYSTEMIC FAILURES AND ROOT CAUSES OF INCIDENTS A method and system for identifying systemic failures and a root cause of incidents in a work environment. Failures, causes, and impacts related to a sample of incidents can be investigated in order to identify one or more systemic failures and root causes of the system... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100299105 | ONLINE CONDITION-BASED MONITORING FOR TANK FARMS A method for online condition-based monitoring (CBM) of a tank farm including a plurality of storage tanks includes providing a tank model including a diagnostic and/or predictive tank model based on calculated tank metrics that is derived from historical data including... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100299119 | PERFORMANCE MONITOR FOR SUBSEA EQUIPMENT The present invention relates to a system and method for monitoring subsea equipment performance and for providing early warning for equipment maintenance, comprising at least one sensor coupled to said equipment and arranged to measure at least one performance indicato... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100292960 | METHOD OF DIAGNOSING AIR CONDITIONER AND MOBILE TERMINAL EQUIPMENT FOR PERFORMING METHOD A method of diagnosing an air conditioner and mobile terminal equipment for performing the method are provided. The method of diagnosing the air conditioner using mobile terminal equipment includes beginning diagnosis of the air conditioner, displaying a diagnostic resu... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100286961 | Surface texture measuring device, surface texture measuring method, and program Surface texture measuring device includes: first pseudo measurement point sequence obtaining means which drives contact piece to trace a surface of reference workpiece having reference shape and obtains locus of certain position of the contact piece as first pseudo meas... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100280872 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MONITORING AND SCHEDULING OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES A system for monitoring and scheduling operations and maintenance (O&M) activities for a facility that includes a plurality of machines is described. The system includes a user computer, a memory device for storing O&M data and resource availability data for the... | 11/04/2010 |
