Patent ID: 9080926
Filing Date: 2015-07-14
Classification: F16C,G01M,G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of creating a prognosis of a life-cycle of a particular rolling-element bearing, the method comprises: obtaining service life data, indicative of one or more factors occurring during the life-cycle of the particular rolling-element bearing and affecting a length of the life-cycle of the particular rolling-element bearing; obtaining identification data, representative of a machine-readable identifier, applied to the particular rolling-element bearing at the manufacturing of the particular rolling-element bearing, for uniquely identifying the particular rolling-element bearing; using the obtained identification data for identifying in a database a history log of the particular rolling-element bearing; accumulating the obtained service life data, as from the manufacturing, in the history log of the particular rolling-element bearing; and by operation of a data processing unit, using the history log with a specific mathematical life-cycle model for creating an update of the prognosis, wherein the prognosis of the particular rolling-element bearing is created over a time span that begins as of a date manufacture and extends through the life-cycle and including a period of non-use.