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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8108182 | System of machine maintenance A system for remote maintenance for a machine. The system includes a database having information for a plurality of machines. A customer accesses the database in order to receive an illustration of at least one of said plurality of machines. Thereafter, the customer... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8086477 | System for creating maintenance plans The invention relates to a system and a method for creating maintenance plans for machines and/or installations simply, dynamically and at low cost, in particular an automation system from production automation and/or process automation. The said machines and/or ins... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086424 | Method for determining life of filters in bag house A method for dynamically determining a remaining actual operational period for a filter in a filtration device including: determining an initial remaining operational period based on an installation date of the filter and an initial expected operational period; peri... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082126 | Remote maintenance system, monitoring center computer used for the same, monitoring system and method of communication for maintenance A remote maintenance system has a monitoring computer for monitoring a facility and a monitoring center computer for maintenance management. The monitoring computer has a database for storing image data of the monitored facility. The monitoring center computer a dat... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8082125 | Apparatus and method for the condition-dependent maintenance of hydrostatic displacement units The invention relates to an apparatus (1) and a method for the condition-dependent maintenance of hydrostatic displacement units (2), in particular axial piston machines (3) operated as pumps or motors. Mounted on the hydrostatic displacement un... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8055476 | System and method to minimize downtimes of medical apparatuses In a system and method to minimize downtimes of medical apparatuses one or more medical apparatuses each has at least: one detection module to detect error situations of the respective medical apparatus, one local database to provide data and information regarding e... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8046194 | Method for predictive maintenance and/or method for determining electrical conductivity in a magneto-inductive flow-measuring device A method for predictive maintenance for a magneto-inductive flow-measuring device and/or to a method for determining electrical conductivity of a medium flowing through a magneto-inductive flow-measuring device, wherein the magneto-inductive flow-measuring device in... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7996183 | Performance monitoring apparatus and system for fluid machinery A performance monitoring apparatus for a fluid machinery which includes a predicted performance curve calculator for obtaining a curve representing the relationship between a pressure coefficient and a flow coefficient by non-dimensional characteristics per a plural... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7987108 | Managing maintenance for an item of equipment A method and system for maintaining an item of equipment supports the provision of predictive maintenance in a manner which eliminates or reduces downtime of the equipment. The method includes tracking performance data on the equipment or a particular component of t... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7945427 | Methods and systems for providing unanticipated demand predictions for maintenance A method for predicting a probability of failure for a component of a platform at a specified time is described. The method includes collecting historical maintenance data relating to the component, selecting, utilizing the collected historical maintenance data, a l... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7941295 | Manufacturing apparatus, information processing method, and program Provided is a manufacturing apparatus for appropriately managing information about parts of the manufacturing apparatus. The manufacturing apparatus includes: a parts identification information receiving unit receiving parts identification information used to identi... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7937244 | System and method for evaluating a shipping route and a package under transport in the shipping route using an environmental sensor Systems and methods disclosed herein use environmental sensor technology to enhance the tracking and transporting capabilities of a product delivery system. The systems and methods provide the capability to track and verify the environmental condition(s) to which a ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7930142 | System and method for generating a transporting instruction using an environmental sensor A system including an environmental sensor that can travel with a product within a carrier's logistics network. The environmental sensor being configured to sense an environmental condition capable of affecting the product to generate product environment data. The s... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7925472 | Methods for asset health management and systems thereof A method, computer readable medium, and system for optimizing utilization of one or more assets includes obtaining at least one of operational data and condition data for one or more elements of at least one of the assets. At least one of historical maintenance data... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7895016 | System and method for wind turbine health management A controller for use in managing an operational lifetime of at least one wind turbine is communicatively coupled to at least one wind turbine and a server sub-system. The controller is configured to receive operational data from the wind turbine, transmit the operat... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7860683 | Device and method for state monitoring in hydrostatic displacement units The invention relates to a device (1) for state monitoring in hydrostatic displacement units (2), in particular in axial piston machines (3) operated as a pump or as a motor. The device (1) comprises an acquisition unit (4) with a ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7822578 | Systems and methods for predicting maintenance of intelligent electronic devices Predictive maintenance systems and methods are described. A method includes measuring environmental conditions using a plurality of sensors within the IED, processing the environmental measurements to determine long-term exposure factors representing historical oper... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7818146 | Method and device for the diagnosis of technical devices disposed within an industrial installation Disclosed is a method for diagnosing technical devices, especially pumps and valves, which are arranged within an installation used in the processing industry. According to said method, disturbance variables that affect the devices and influence the service life the... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7809527 | System for centralized maintenance of onboard electronic equipment A centralized maintenance system for aircraft which includes line replacement units (LRUs). The system includes at least one digital database whose data are information relating to the LRUs; and a device for updating the data of the database. The lifetime informatio... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7805279 | Remote maintenance system Factories (102-104) have host computers (107) for monitoring industrial equipment (106). Each host computer (107) is connected to a management host computer (108) on a vendor (101) side through the internet (105 | 09/28/2010 |
| 7774169 | Maintenance system and method A maintenance system for an apparatus that is a maintenance target enables reduction in cost related to maintenance services and reduction in downtime of the apparatus. The maintenance system acquires information related to a visit interval that prescribes a time in... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7769564 | Method and apparatus for monitoring bearings A system to facilitate reducing false train stops includes an infrared sensor that is coupled to a processing unit. The processing unit is programmed to receive inputs from the sensor, generate a bearing profile using the received inputs, classify the bearing profil... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7756679 | Remote maintenance system, monitoring center computer used for the same, monitoring system and method of communication for maintenance A remote maintenance system has a monitoring computer for monitoring a facility and a monitoring center computer for maintenance management. The monitoring computer has a database for storing image data of the monitored facility. The monitoring center computer has a... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7752015 | Method and apparatus for monitoring bearings A system to facilitate reducing false train stops includes an infrared bearing scanner that is coupled to a processing unit. The processing unit is programmed to receive inputs from the infrared bearing scanner, generate a bearing profile for each bearing passing th... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7739078 | System for managing appliances A system for maintaining and/or repairing an appliance is provided. The system includes, a flash device that collects information from the appliance and stores an application for processing the collected information; and a computing system that interfaces with the f... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7653512 | Precision diagnostic method for the failure protection and predictive maintenance of a vacuum pump and a precision diagnostic system therefor According to the present invention, the most challenging issues in this work have been to find systematic ways of enabling maintenance engineers to decide an adequate time for the replacement of vacuum pumps on the basis of their current performance assessment resul... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7636648 | Arrangement, method and computer program product for enhanced prognostics A method, a computer program product, a device and a monitoring arrangement for monitoring operation of an exchangeable unit in a machine. The monitoring arrangement includes at least one sensor, a control unit and a memory, that is arranged on the exchangeable unit... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7610174 | System for assured reliability in DC to AC power converters A distributed power generation system enabled for assured reliability comprises a direct current power source, a direct current to alternating current converter (DTAC), electrically coupled to the direct current power source, the DTAC comprising a reliability limiti... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7599816 | Maintenance-information providing system A maintenance-information providing system is configured to provide information to maintain an air conditioner more appropriately. The system has an actual trouble code data storage section which stores data based on a trouble code, an actual predictive trouble code... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7587300 | Parts management system and method and parts management program and storage medium A parts management system which is capable of preventing use of a non-conforming part. A first computer for a user has component parts for an apparatus, delivered to the user. A second computer for a manufacturer is connected via a communication network to the first... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7577549 | System and method for trending exhaust gas temperature in a turbine engine A method for estimating a trend in exhaust gas temperature in a turbine engine includes sampling exhaust gas temperature and a plurality of variables associated with the exhaust gas temperature over a set of observation times for a turbine engine to acquire exhaust ... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7555408 | Qualifying means in method and system for managing service levels provided by service providers A method and system for managing a service level of a service provided by a service provider to a customer under a service level agreement. The measurement data is transformed into operational data. The operational data is evaluated through use of a formula represen... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7536278 | Inspection method, system, and program product An improved solution for performing an inspection is provided, in which a user can use a handheld computing device to obtain and/or record the set of attributes required for the inspection. In particular, an inspection schedule can be initiated on the handheld compu... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7509235 | Method and system for forecasting reliability of assets A method and system of forecasting reliability of an asset is provided. The method includes identifying peer units of the asset by using selected criteria, performing a search for the peer units based upon the selected criteria, and constructing local predictive mod... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7509236 | Remote maintenance system, monitoring center computer used for the same, monitoring system and method of communication for maintenance A remote maintenance system is comprised of: a monitoring computer for monitoring a facility; and a monitoring center computer for using maintenance management. The monitoring computer has a database for storing image data of the monitored facility. The monitoring c... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7502718 | Vehicle fault diagnostic system Vehicle data detected in a vehicle 10 is transmitted to an information center 12 so as to detect a fault. When detecting generation of the fault, the information center 12 instructs the vehicle to perform a fault identification process. Identifi... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7496475 | Maintenance management of a machine Methods of providing maintenance management of a machine are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method involves identifying a machine component failure that, if not repaired, will result in a functional failure of the machine. A criticality factor is assigned to the ... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7478014 | Method and system for facilitating preventive maintenance of an optical inspection tool A method of determining preventive maintenance for an optical inspection system for inspecting photolithography processed substrates. The method includes measuring at least one operational characteristic of the optical inspection system and comparing a measurement r... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7474988 | Maintenance system and method and program therefor To provide a technique of reducing the costs for maintenance work and also the downtime of products. There is provided a maintenance system that calculates a timing to make a visit for maintenance work for consumable parts of a machine to be maintained. The maintena... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7474987 | Method and system for optimal data diagnosis In the method and system for automated data diagnosis, a relational data base is formed of attributes characterizing an entity. The framework computes optimal diagnosis for a diagnostic inference problem which separates the desirable attributes from the undesirable ... | 01/06/2009 |
