Patent ID: 8401726
Filing Date: 2013-03-19
Classification: G06Q,G07C

Abstract:
1. A method of using a maintenance interval determination and optimization tool (MIDOT) for optimizing a maintenance schedule associated with commercial fleet vehicles comprising the steps of: collecting historical maintenance data from one or more components within a platform, said platform comprising commercial fleet vehicles, said one or more components comprising vehicle components selected from an entire vehicle in addition to said vehicle engine; associating a maintenance task with the one or more components; determining an optimal maintenance task interval to perform the associated maintenance task on the one or more components, said optimal maintenance task interval determined according to statistical analysis that determines a survival probability function including selected confidence bounds, said survival probability function comprising a plotted Weibull distribution of associated component lifetimes, said component lifetimes derived from specific actual usage of each of said one or more components, said maintenance task interval selected within said confidence bounds to equal a survival probability threshold of the one or more components surviving a specified time, said survivable probability function derived from said historical maintenance data, said historical maintenance data comprising a same associated maintenance task or cause associated with the one or more components, the step of determining of an optimal maintenance task interval to perform the associated maintenance task on the one or more components including the steps of: incorporating said optimal maintenance task interval in said maintenance schedule associated with said commercial fleet vehicles.