Patent ID: 8165907
Filing Date: 2012-04-24
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. An optimization system for automated optimization of a service life of technical facilities and/or risk determination of technical facilities, comprising: an optimization device that includes an analysis module configured to analyze facility data to optimize the service life of a technical facility; a capture module configured to capture the facility data of the technical facility, the capture module including at least one measuring device having at least one sensor, connected to the optimization device via a network, with corresponding interfaces for determining one or more facility-specific quality factors, the at least one measuring device being allocated to a particular technical facility; a first database configured to store predefined risk elements, identifying in a quantified manner a risk instance and/or a risk potential of the technical facility; a second database configured to store predefined protection elements, identifying in a quantified manner a protection device and/or a protection possibility of technical facilities; a third database configured to store, for each technical facility, at least one risk element and/or at least one protection element allocated to the technical facility, a facility-specific weighting factor determined for each risk element and protection element, and a facility-specific quality factor, determined by the capture module via the at least one measuring device, for each risk element and protection element, the facility-specific weighting factor identifying the relative weighting ratio of the risk elements and/or protection elements with respect to one another, the facility-specific quality factor identifying an instantaneous facility-specific instance of a risk element or protection element based on the measured facility data; and an evaluation module configured to determine risk analysis values and/or facility optimization values based on the sum of the products of the risk elements with associated facility-specific weighting factors and facility-specific quality factors as well as the sum of the products of the protection elements with associated facility-specific weighting factors and facility-specific quality factors, wherein the evaluation module is implemented as hardware or as a hardware/software combination; wherein the optimization device is configured to generate and store a two-dimensional table in accordance with a combination, a first dimension of the two-dimensional table identifying a protection level of a technical facility and a second dimension of the two-dimensional table identifying a risk level of a technical facility; wherein the optimization device is configured to populate the two-dimensional table, for automated risk management and/or for automated optimization of the service life of the technical facility, with the sum of the products of the protection elements with associated facility-specific weighting factors and facility-specific quality factors of the technical facility in relation to the first dimension, to populate the two-dimensional table with the sum of the products of the risk elements with associated weighting factors and quality factors of the technical facility in relation to the second dimension, and to determine that the at least one risk analysis value and/or facility optimization value on the basis of location of an entry in the two-dimensional table; wherein the two-dimensional table is normalized by a facility-risk-specific normalization factor for determining the risk analysis values and/or facility optimization values for a technical facility.