Patent ID: 9454855
Filing Date: 2016-09-27
CPC Classification: G06Q,G07C

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising the following steps: obtaining a first set of data comprising maintenance events recorded in connection with multiple vehicular components across multiple vehicles in a fleet of vehicles, wherein said obtaining the first set of data comprises forming a connection between (i) a first database and (ii) a vehicular management device; obtaining a second set of data comprising maintenance work orders performed on the multiple vehicular components across multiple vehicles in the fleet of vehicles, wherein said obtaining the second set of data comprises forming a connection between (i) a second database and (ii) the vehicular management device; obtaining a third set of data comprising a collection of measurements taken in connection with the multiple vehicular components, wherein said obtaining the third set of data comprises forming a connection between (i) multiple sensors resident on and/or associated with the multiple vehicles in the given fleet of vehicles and (ii) the vehicular management device; analyzing (i) the first set of data and (ii) the second set of data to identify one or more component failure events associated with the multiple vehicular components; determining multiple failure indicators for each of the multiple vehicular components in each of the multiple vehicles in the given fleet of vehicles based on (i) the second set of data, (ii) the third set of data, and (iii) the one or more identified component failure events, wherein the multiple failure indicators comprise at least (a) a manufacturing defect-related failure indicator, (b) a wear-related failure indicator, and (c) a non-wear related failure indicator; and outputting the multiple indicators in multiple visualized forms, wherein each of the multiple visualized forms represents one selected from the group consisting of: (i) a level of the given fleet of vehicles, (ii) a level of a single vehicle selected from the given fleet, (iii) a level of one of the multiple vehicular components of the selected single vehicle, and (iv) a level of one of the multiple indicators associated with the one vehicular component of the selected single vehicle.