摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique for reducing the cost related to maintenance services and downtime of a product as well. <P>SOLUTION: A maintenance planning system 1 for making a maintenance plan for consumable parts of an apparatus that is a maintenance target, includes: an interval information acquisition unit 206 configured to acquire information related to a combination of a visit interval that prescribes a time interval at which a visit should be made for maintenance operation for each consumable part, and a replacement interval that prescribes a time interval at which each consumable part should be replaced and that is associated with the visit interval; a counter value acquisition unit 206 configured to acquire a counter value that indicates actual use of consumable parts in the apparatus that is a maintenance target; and a maintenance plan calculating unit 209 configured to calculate timing at which a next visit should be made for the apparatus that is a maintenance target, and a consumable part that should be replaced at the timing, on the basis of the information acquired by the interval information acquiring unit 206 and the counter value acquired by the counter value acquiring unit 206. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT |