METHOD FOR OPERATING AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE AND MAINTENANCE SYSTEM FOR AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE SELF EXECUTABLE COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND NON VOLATILE STORAGE MEDIUM

摘要

The invention relates to a method for operating particularly for maintaining an internal combustion engine 100 having an engine 20 which has a hardware structure 10 comprising an engine control unit 2 and a maintenance unit 1 having an electronic engine identification module 3 and having an engine control program particularly comprising a firmware FW and a functional engine application FSW having the steps: providing a computer program product via a network 80 by means of which an engine identification and engine data can be loaded together and can be exchanged wherein the computer program product is designed for exchanging particularly uploading and/or downloading a maintenance software module 60 by means of which the engine identification and the engine data can be compiled; loading the computer program product onto a non volatile storage medium 30; coupling the non volatile storage medium 30 to the maintenance unit 1 of the hardware structure 10 and executing the computer program product exchanging the maintenance software module 60 between the non volatile storage medium 30 and the maintenance unit 1; identifying the engine and compiling engine data by means of the maintenance software module 60 and a hardware component of the hardware structure 10.