INTEGRATED MAINTENANCE SCORING APPARATUS AND METHOD

摘要

Methods and apparatus for computational aggregation of information from an infrastructure system process by analytical programs tracking condition, maintenance, and scoring for both. An integrated score provides additional insights into actual real-life expectations for continued operation for an infrastructure asset. The system may be accessed over a presentation interface that permits “what if” testing, searching for similarly situated assets, incorporation of actual data of inspections and maintenance efforts, as well as data from similarly situated environments and systems. The information may be processed through numerical methods systems and statistical modules in order to obtain correlations, calculations, and predictions of useful life of assets and systems of assets.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a computer system comprising at least one computing device, inspection data reflecting inspection of the condition of each of a plurality of assets, the assets constituting an infrastructure system; identifying, by the computer system, types, each type corresponding to a component constituting a structure having a function and physical characteristics reflecting the ability of the type to accomplish the function; selecting life parameters reflecting operational life of each of the respective types; determining, by the computer system, for each of the types, a life value corresponding to the each of the types and respective life parameters corresponding thereto; creating, by the computer system, a condition score for each type, the condition score reflecting the life value for the each type, based on at least one of an inspection and another assessment of an instance of the type after an installation event; creating, by the computer system, a maintenance score for each type, reflecting a change in the life value corresponding to a maintenance event of a plurality of maintenance events corresponding to the each type of the plurality of types, respectively; calculating, by the computer system, an integrated score reflecting the expected operational lifetime of a subject component as a specific instance of the type, based on analyzing together the condition score and the maintenance score corresponding to the specific instance as installed in the infrastructure system.